Here are some Love quotes to inspire you to love yourself first. Inspiring quotes to help you cultivate self-love and self-acceptance:
- “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” — Charles Bukowski
- “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” — Bronnie Ware
- “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” — Kaci Diane
- “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” — Madonna
- “Above everything else, genuinely love yourself first. Self-love is powerful and it’s the best love that you will ever have.” — Stephanie Lahart
- “Your happiness and well-being is important. Protect it by always valuing who you are!” — Stephanie Lahart
These quotes remind us that self-love is essential for building strong relationships and living a happy, fulfilling life. By prioritizing self-love and self-acceptance, we can develop a more positive and compassionate relationship with ourselves and others.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Our Top 20 Love Quotes to Inspire You to Love Yourself First.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were. ~ Richard Bach
1. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” — Lalah Delia
2. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” — George R.R. Martin
3. “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.” — Solange Knowles
4. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” ― Rupi Kaur
5. “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” — Tina Fey
6. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” — Diana, Princess of Wales
7. “Talk to yourself like you would talk to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
8. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” — Sophia Loren
9. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
10. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” — Dr. Maya Angelou
11. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
12. “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller
13. “I don’t fit into any stereotypes, and I like myself that way.” — C. Joybell C.
14. “You look ridiculous when you dance. You look ridiculous when you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.” — Gertrude Stein
15. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” — Charles Bukowski
16. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain
17. “Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand, but ultimately they are indistinguishable.” — M. Scott Peck
18. “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” — Warsan Shire
19. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” — Madonna
20. “Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “We are all stronger, smarter, talented, beautiful, and more resilient than we were told.” — CeCe McDonald
22. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi
23. “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
24. “Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” — Bryce Courtenay
25. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
26. “I am what I am: an individual, unique and different.” — Charlie Chaplin
27. “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.” — James R. Sherman
28. “There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.” ― Nayyirah Waheed
29. “I can’t be there for other people unless I’m there for myself. I can’t really work to push our movement without really investing in myself. By investing in yourself, you’re also investing in your community.” — Dior Vargas
30. “I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” — Wayne Dyer
31. “When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” — Paulo Coelho
32. “I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves.” — Lizzo
33. “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.” — Marcus Garvey
34. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” — Beyoncé
35. “It is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable; it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives.” — Jim Rohn
36. “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” — Kaci Diane
37. “I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. “Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” — Alison Malee
39. “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” — Bronnie Ware
40. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise Hay
41. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotions are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” — Teal Swan
42. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” — Louis L’Amour
43. “I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. “ — Edward Everett Hale
44. “If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities — the expression of love — then life itself loses its meaning.” — Harvey Milk
45. “If you wish to be loved, love.” — Hecaton of Rhodes
Love Quotes and Images
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. ~ John Keats
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Albert Schweitzer
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~ Robert Fulghum
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci Love Quotes to Inspire
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. ~ James E. Faust