Self-Love Quotes: For Confidence, Healing, & Empowerment​

By Kelsey Schultz, Ph.D. Candidate
​Reviewed by Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D.
Self-love is a simple concept but a very difficult practice. Keep reading for some self-love quotes to help out in times when self-love doesn’t come easily.​
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Self-love is a concept we hear about a lot these days. We have learned that accepting ourselves and believing in ourselves has real, observable benefits for achieving our goals and living the lives we envision for ourselves. For example, research has shown that people who believed strongly in themselves were better able to make behavioral changes that improved their health and well-being than people who did not (Cervone, 2000). ​
Though self-love is an idea that’s easy to get on board with, how we implement it is a different story. Exactly how we go about loving ourselves isn’t always apparent or intuitive, and self-love may be especially difficult if you’re the type to hold yourself to impossible standards or you’re prone to self-criticism.

Sometimes the path to self-love requires major changes in our behaviors; other times, however, we just need a little reminder of how magical and precious our existence is. A bit of distilled wisdom in the form of self-love quotes can be a useful tool when we’ve forgotten how beautiful it is to be anything at all and that our mere existence makes us worthy of love. Below are several categories of self-love quotes to serve as gentle reminders when you need them.​
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Short Self-Love Quotes​

  • “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” — R.Z. 
  • “Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.” — Rena Rose
  • “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” — Lalah Delia
  • “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” — Kaci Diane
  • “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” — Ann Marie Molina
  • "Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self." — Queen Latifah
  • “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” — A. A. Milne
  • “You change the world by being yourself.” — Yoko Ono
  • "Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself." — Rupi Kaur

Famous Self-Love Quotes​

  • “I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. . . . How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us and how little to our very own!” — Marcus Aurelius
  • “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
  • “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
  • “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” — Charles Bukowski
  • “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.” — Beyoncé

Self-Love Quotes for Confidence

  • “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
  • “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
  • “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” — E. E. Cummings
  • “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” — Mary Dunbar
  • “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” — Ian Wallace
  • “This life is mine alone. So, I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been." — Glennon Doyle
  • “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” — Marcus Garvey
  • “Loving oneself isn't hard when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.” — Phylicia Rashad

Self-Love and Kindness Quotes

  • “Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love and it feels weird, it works.” — Brené Brown
  • “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise Hay
  • "All people deserve your kindness, but none more so than you.” — Justin Kan
  • “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.” — Roy Bennett
  • “Be very very very gentle with yourself. The world is very very hard on you.” — Srividya Srinivasan
  • “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
  • "Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally." — Hannah Bronfman
  • “Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” — Princess Diana

Self-Love Quotes for Moms

  • “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others.” — Robin Sharma
  • “Unless we love and treat ourselves well, we are ill-equipped to do the same for others.” — Angela C. Santomero
  • “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” — Pierre Corneille
  • “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” — Thaddeus Golas
  • “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” — Anna Taylor
  • “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.” — Karl Lagerfeld
  • “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” — Lalah Delia
  • "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 Bündchen

Uplifting Self-Love Quotes​

  • “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud ‘I am lucky to be what I am.’” — Dr. Seuss
  • “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.” — bell hooks
  • “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” — Walt Whitman
  • “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” — Yogi Bahaman
  • “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe, and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.” — Louise Hay
  • “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.” — Ellen Sue Stern
  • “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” — Madonna
  • "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

Unconditional Self-Love Quotes

  • “Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self-love, it’s self-destruction.” — Laci Green
  • “Other people’s opinion of you, whether it’s good or bad, should not be grounds in which you base your self worth. Your value is inherent within you. What matters the most is whether you know you are worthy.” — Ash Alves
  • “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” — Abraham Lincoln
  • “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
  • “You have to grow, you have to be, you have to love yourself unconditionally.” — Dominic Riccitello
  • “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey.” — Sylvester McNutt
  •  "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." — Lucille Ball
  •  "No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love." — Edmond Mbiaka

Self-Love Quotes for Healing

  • “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
  • “If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit.” — Alexandra Vasiliu
  • “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” — Andrea Dykstra
  • “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” — Benjamin Spock
  • “As I began to love myself, I found that anguish and emotional suffering were only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.” — Charlie Chaplin
  • “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” — Louise Hay
  • “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” — Eckhart Tolle

Self-Love Quotes for Empowerment

  • “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey
  • “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” — Dr. Maya Angelou
  • “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” — Beyoncé
  • “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown
  • “Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.” — Michelle Obama
  • “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.” — Nikki Rowe
  • “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation. . . . I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.” — Ashley Graham

Self-Love Quotes for After a Breakup

  • “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” — Dr. Maya Angelou
  • “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” — Louis L’Amour
  • “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” — Roman Price
  • “You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to.” — R. H. Sin
  • “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” — Rupi Kaur
  • “Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you—yourself.” — Sanhita Baruah
  • “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Self-Love Quotes for Instagram

  • “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” — Diane von Furstenberg
  • “The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.” — Edmond Mbiaka
  • “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” — Hindu Proverb
  • “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” — Katrina Mayer
  • “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” — Shannon L. Alder
  • “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” — Gary Zukav

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Final Thoughts on Self-Love Quotes​

Self-love is undeniably a force for good and something we are all worthy of, but we commonly fall in and out of love with ourselves over the course of our lives. Self-love quotes can help us remember who we are when we’ve lost our way. For more self-love quotes, check out this video:​

Video: 25 Quotes About Self-Love To Remind You That You Are SO Worth It​

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