50+ Beautiful Quotes About Self Love and Self Esteem

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Self love is the idea of loving yourself the way you are now, regardless of your perceived flaws or shortcomings. It’s giving yourself grace and loving yourself because you are inherently worthy. Here are 50 beautiful quotes about self love, self esteem quotes, and quotes about loving yourself.

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Beautiful Quotes About Loving Yourself and Self Love Quotes

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Here are 50 beautiful quotes about self love and learning to love yourself.

The Importance of Self-Love

It all comes back to self-love.  If there’s one person you’re going to have to spend the rest of your life with, it’s yourself, so you might as well be kind to you.

I love the idea of treating yourself like you would a best friend, because of course you would be kind and supportive to your best friend.

Often we treat ourselves terribly when we would never do that to anyone else, but no matter who you are or what you’ve done, there’s no reason you can’t treat yourself with the same kindness and compassion that you would to the rest of the world.

Try to be your own biggest cheerleader.  Maybe it sounds a little weird at first, but it makes sense to love yourself before you love anyone else.  In the end, everyone ends up happier for it.

Treat yourself like a best friend.  Learn to love your flaws.

Quotes About Self-Love | Quotes About Loving Yourself

1. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

2. “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

3. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

4. “No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” – Barbara de Angelis

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5. “When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” – African Proverb

6. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

7. “When people believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” – Norman Vincent Peale

8. “Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.” – Margo Anand

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9. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

10. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

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11. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Author Unknown

12. “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

13. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

14. “Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment – or unlearning – of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is…our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.” – Marianne Williamson

15. “If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.” – Ralph Emerson

16. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman

17. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann von Goethe

18. “Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.” – Ellen Sue Stern

19. “How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.” – Sue Atchley Ebaugh

20. “Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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21. “We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp

22. “Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.” – David Grayson

23. “Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.” – Bill Copeland

24. “What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.” – Marcus Annaeus Seneca

25. “The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.” – Ben Sweet

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26. “Be content to seem what you really are.” – Marcus Aurelius

27. “Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.” – Barbara Sher

28. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde

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29. “About all you can do in life is be who you are.” – Rita Mae Brown

30. “Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

31. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

32. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas

33. “To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.” – Anonymous

34. “If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.” – Nicholas de Chamfort

35. “The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.” – Deepak Chopra

36. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

37. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Veronica A. Shoffstall

38. “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes

39. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne Dyer

40. “Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.” – Emmanuel

41. “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman

42. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” – Louis L. Amour

43. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. “If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.” – Louise L. Hay

45. “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?” – Goldie Hawn

46. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

47. “You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.” – Martha Graham

48. “Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

49. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” –Louise L. Hay

50. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

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