Self love is as important as surviving. Those who do not love themselves can never live in peace. Choosing yourself over others is not being selfish. It means you own yourself and making yourself a priority. Life will give you happiness and sorrows, but it is your responsibility to choose whether you want to make yourself or break yourself. Surround yourself with people having positive energy so that positive vibes spread all around. These self love quotes are a way to understand how loving yourself is important, and how self love is vital to having a good life.
Set your goals higher and work hard to achieve those goals, and make your life meaningful. Love yourself for who you are, and the world will start loving you the way you are.

35 Self Love Quotes
- “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” Tina Fey
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” Lucille Ball
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” Mark Twain
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Gustav Jung
- “We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” Mae West
- “In order to love who you are; you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” Andrea Dykstra
- “Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.” Gerard Way
- “Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.” JoyBell c
- “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” Anthony Powell
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” Harvey Fierstein
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” Yogi Bhajan
- “Just be, and enjoy being.” Eckhart Tolle
- “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard. The right people—the ones who really belong in your life—will come to you. And stay.” Will Smith
- “You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It’s not like you have forever, so don’t waste any of your seconds, don’t throw even one of your moments away.” JoyBell C.
- “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” Allen Ginsberg
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” Robert Morely
- “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “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
- “The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.” Osho
- “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
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
- “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” JoyBell C.
- “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” Barbara De Angelis
- “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” Fred Rogers
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.” Osho
- “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” Robert Holden
- “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” Coco Chanel
- “I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It’s high time that I accept all the great things about me.” JoyBell C.
- “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
- “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” Maxwell Maltz
- “Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” Daphne Rose Kingma
- “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” Osho
- “You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” Louise Hay
- “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” Philip Pullman