Loving Yourself Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old loving yourself quotes, loving yourself sayings, and loving yourself proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can pick up on that; they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you. Lilly Singh
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. Jose Bergamin
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. Mason Cooley
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. Piere Corneille
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. Joseph Butler
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense. and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested because the objects of them are all equally self or somewhat else. Joseph Butler
The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. Sonya Friedman
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it. Thaddeus Golas
Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself. Meg Ryan
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vice versa. Karl A. Menninger
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. Brene Brown
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation. Voltaire
The love you seek from others is usually the love you don't give to yourself. Gal Shapira
Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect. Rhonda Byrne
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage— he won't encounter many rivals. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
View yourselves / In the deceiving mirror of self-love. Philip Massinger
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue—and not a vice— to love myself, since I am a human being, too. Erich Fromm
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. Robert Morely
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. Wilfred Peterson
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. Kristin Chenoweth
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. Les Brown
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. Alan Cohen
I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself. Mae West
Loving yourself isn't vanity. It’s sanity. Andre Gide
Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally. Hannah Bronfman
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset. Ileana D'Cruz
What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself. Kelly Brook
If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. Gisele Bundchen
You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place. Vanessa Hudgens