30 Must-Read Love Yourself Quotes to Increase Your Self-Esteem

Loving yourself to the fullest is all about accepting and embracing your differences, treating yourself kindly and being happy and proud of who you are. If you’re down or sad, read these these love yourself quotes to get inspired, motivated and feel empowered again.

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball

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

“Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.” – Steve Maraboli

“The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” – Sahaj Kohli

“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

“Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.” – Nikki Rowe

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Unknown

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

“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.” – Unknown

“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Sometimes the noise of life can be just too much. If you need to escape, love yourself enough to know when you need a real time out.” – Unknown

“We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” – Mae West

“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung

“Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” – Gary Zukav

“Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.” – Stephanie Lahart

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb

“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

“You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.” – Alyssa B. Sheinmel, Faceless

“You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.” – Shannon L. Alder

“The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.” – Edmond Mbiaka

“Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, it will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” – Nikki Rowe

“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

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

“My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” – Shakti Gawain

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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