You may think that self-love is selfish, but it's not. It's essential, even. In a world that constantly tells you that you're not good enough, the best self-love quotes serve as gentle and great reminders that you are really worthy of your own compassion and care. These inspiring sayings from poets, authors, celebs, and other famous figures can shift your mindset when self-doubt creeps in. If you want to start your morning with intention, need a midday confidence boost, or want to end your day on a positive note, the right quote can be exactly what you need to re-love yourself again.
Whether you need self-love affirmations that are inspiring, short, hugely popular, funny, or come from song lyrics — we've got all that. Even if you're a teenage girl or a man, there are self-love quotes for you, too. Soon enough, everybody who learn something from these quotes will help build a healthier relationship within themselves. Because at the end of the day, the most important love story you'll ever write is the one between you and you.
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Inspirational Self-Love Quotes
- "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 - "I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
— Maya Angelou - "Stop making yourself smaller to fit into some narrative to be more pleasing to the world."
— Chelsie Diane - "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."
— Marcus Garvey - "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
- "Every day I have to wake up and love myself, not in an arrogant way, but in an accepting, caring way."
— Normandie Keith - "Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There's a reason they all start with 'self'. You can't find them in anyone else."
— Unknown - "To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off."
— Nancy Friday - "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 - "There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."
— Nayyirah Waheed
- "For me, self-love is like, 'Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?' Not: 'Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?' But: 'Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?' And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good."
— Kerry Washington - "If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life."
— Anne Hathaway - "My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am."
— Anaïs Nin - "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 - "It is interesting how often we can't see all the ways in which we are being strong."
— Lena Dunham
- "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."
— Wilferd Peterson - "This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."
— Voltaire - "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung - "The biggest challenge you will face in your life is accepting yourself – just as you are."
— Stephanie June Sorrell - "When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world."
— Harry Palmer
- "To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."
— Sandra Bierig - "It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."
— Eartha Kitt - "When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small."
— Kim McMillen - "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself."
— Unknown
- "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw - "When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way."
— Ellie Holcomb - "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
— Maya Angelou - "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath - "Take heart, gentle soul, you may not be like the rest of them, but you are still whole."
— Morgan Harper Nichols
- "Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it."
— Unknown - "Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."
— Rumi - "You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well."
— Esther Hicks - "This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been."
— Glennon Doyle - "Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first."
— Beau Taplin
- "If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
— Maya Angelou - "No person seems to me of an affectionate disposition towards others, who is not very fond of himself, yet there are some so very much attached themselves that they really love nothing else."
— Helen Thrale
Short Self-Love Quotes
- "Am I good enough? Yes, I am."
— Michelle Obama - "The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."
— Steve Maraboli - "Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford."
— Cindy Crawford - "You change the world by being yourself."
— Yoko Ono - "Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
— Dolly Parton
- "If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
— Charles Bukowski - "Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."
— Lalah Delia - "Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."
— Queen Latifah - "Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."
— Hailee Steinfeld - "Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey
- "Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
— Dalai Lama - "Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
— William Shakespeare - "The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."
— Maya Angelou - "You are enough just as you are."
— Meghan Markle - "Be the love you never received."
— Rune Lazuli
- "Talk to yourself like someone you love."
— Brené Brown - "Stand up for who you are. Respect yourself and ignite the divine sparks in you."
— Amit Ray - "Love. Laugh. And live it up!"
— Christie Brinkley - "The universe took its time on you."
— Rupi Kaur - "How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."
— Rupi Kaur
- "All love begins with the love within."
— Vironika Tugaleva - "I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
— Walt Whitman - "Plant hope in your heart's wounds."
— Alexandra Vasiliu - "Our first and last love is self-love."
— Christian Nestell Bovee - "Treat yourself like someone you love."
— Glennon Doyle
- "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde - "You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
— Maya Angelou - "Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
— André Gide - "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt - "Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand brake on."
— Maxwell Maltz
- "If you wish to be loved, love."
— Hecaton of Rhodes - "We accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky - "Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."
— Robert Holden - "All lights turned off can be turned on."
— Noah Kahan - "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
— Oscar Wilde
- "Every exit is an entrance to someplace else."
— Patti LaBelle - "Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you."
— Unknown - "You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."
— Diane Von Furstenberg - "If it costs you your peace of mind, you've overpaid."
— Rigel J. Dawson - "You don't have to set yourself on fire to keep others warm."
— Penny Reid
- "Relationship status: committed to growth, self-love, and inner peace."
— Unknown - "Let your light shine bright so the other weirdos can't find you."
— Unknown - "Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity."
— Katrina Mayer - "Keep watering yourself. You're growing."
— E.Russell - "Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
— Confucius
- "And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"
— Rumi - "Beauty comes from a life well lived"
— Jennifer Garner - "The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
— Amelia Earhart - "I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
— Oscar Wilde - "Do your thing and don't care if they like it."
— Tina Fey
- "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
— Michael Altshuler - "You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
— Unknown - "To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."
— Robert Morley
Famous Self-Love Quotes
- "When I say 'embrace your weirdness', it means embrace the things you don't like about yourself. For a time, to me, that was almost everything. But I've learned to embrace all the things I find about myself, if they're good and even if they're bad."
— Cara Delevingne - "Self-respect knows no considerations"
— Mahatma Gandhi - "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
— M. Scott Peck - "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
— Coco Chanel - "Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?"
— Brigham Young
- "Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, 'This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!' I'm proud of that."
— Kate Winslet - "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg - "It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
— Sally Field - "Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."
— Parker Palmer - "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
- "Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable."
— M. Scott Peck - "Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves"
— Mahatma Gandhi - "It helps to even look in the mirror—and it sounds so cheesy—but if you just look in the mirror and say, 'You are beautiful,' and 'You are worthy,' those things really help you."
— Demi Lovato - "Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, 'cause we were born this way!"
— Lady Gaga - "The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."
— E. E. Cummings
- "I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."
— Brené Brown - "Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."
— Beyoncé - "Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."
— George R.R. Martin - "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
— Oprah Winfrey - "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there."
— Venus Williams
Self-Love Affirmations
- "At 54, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."
— Michelle Obama - "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."
— Deepak Chopra - "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
— Audrey Hepburn - "Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
— Louise L. Hay - "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
— Emily Bronte
- "Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself."
— Tyra Banks - "Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently."
— Michelle Obama - "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
— Toni Morrison - "When you say 'yes' to others make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."
— Paulo Coelho - "Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you."
— Beyoncé
- "Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."
— Don Miguel Ruiz - "Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness."
— Deborah Day - "I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
— Madonna - "At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person."
— Taraji P. Henson - "The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."
— C. JoyBell C.
- "Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."
— Alison Malee - "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
— Marilyn Monroe - "Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives"
— Louise Hay - "But I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms."
— Mindy Kaling - "Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won't know what you're really capable of"
— Louise Hay
- "You will belong here... You will make anywhere beautiful."
— Jasmine Warga - "Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat."
— Warsan Shire - "Look inward—the loving begins with you."
— Oprah Winfrey - "Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
— Sophia Loren - "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Should loud, 'I am lucky to be what I am!...'"
— Dr. Seuss (from Happy Birthday to You)
- "You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."
— Jennifer Lopez - "Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."
— Suzy Kassem - "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt - "Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always."
— Maryam Hasnaa - "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry Thoreau - "Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."
— Deborah Day
Empowering Self-Love Quotes
- "The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."
— Morgan Harper Nichols - "To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."
— Denis Waitley - "Trust the next chapter because you are the author."
— Unknown - "Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."
— Rob Liano - "Self-care is giving the world the best of you instead of what's left of you."
— Katie Reed
- "I always feel confident. I never allow myself to not feel confident."
— Amber Rose - "One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."
— Shannon L. Alder - "It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself."
— Diane Von Furstenberg - "If you don't love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won't be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self."
— Wayne Dyer - "Never let anyone who cannot bear your pain make you feel you are unbearable. Not everyone is capable of walking with you, but that does not mean you are not worthy of belonging."
— Morgan Harper Nichols (from All Along You Were Blooming)
- "Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it."
— Unknown - "You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
— Buddha - "I don't think that loving yourself is a choice. I think that it's a decision that has to be made for survival."
— Lizzo - "If you're searching for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror."
— Roman Price - "Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."
— Maya Angelou - "I don't wear the opinions of others anymore. I learned to dress myself."
— Nikki Rowe
Self-Love Quotes for Girls
- "You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
— Leymah Gbowee - "I am not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott - "Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."
— Meryl Streep - "Never dull your shine for someone else."
— Tyra Banks - "You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it."
— Ashley Graham
- "I'm not going to apologize for who I am and I'm going to actually love the skin that I'm in. I'm not gonna be striving for some other version of myself."
— Amy Schumer - "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
— Lucille Ball - "Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
— Sophia Loren - "We must fall in love with ourselves. I don't like myself. I'm crazy about myself."
— Mae West - "I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."
— Serena Williams
- "I was once afraid of people saying 'Who does she think she is?' Now I have the courage to stand and say, 'This is who I am.'"
— Oprah Winfrey - "Don't fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance."
— Ashley Graham - "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
— Maya Angelou - "We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?"
— Meghan Markle - "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
- "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
— Madeleine Albright
Funny Self-Love Quotes
- "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana."
— Betty White - "I've got 99 problems, but self-love ain't one."
— Unknown - "Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that."
— Ellen DeGeneres - "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Jim Henson - "Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood."
— Bill Murray
- "Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."
— Tina Fey - "If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama - "My selfie game is strong, which mirrors my self-love policy."
— Unknown - "Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am."
— Harvey Specter - "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
— Lucille Ball
- "Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."
— Robert Downey, Jr. - "I got it all together. But I forgot where I put it."
— Unknown - "Makeup can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if you're ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the makeup."
— Audrey Hepburn - "If someone says you're weird, say thank you."
— Ellen DeGeneres - "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."
— Erma Bombeck
- "Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they're destined to be."
— Jennifer Elisabeth - "I'm not offended by blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb. And I also know that I'm not blonde."
— Dolly Parton - "Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."
— George Carlin - "Reminder that Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top with no pants and ate his favorite food and loved himself, so you can, too."
— Unknown - "Know your worth, and then make sure to add tax."
— Unknown
Happy Self-Love Quotes
- "The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."
— Jamie Lee Curtis - "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama - "I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I'm sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."
— Dolly Parton - "The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."
— Dodinsky - "Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The journey of self-love begins when you let go of who you think you have to be.”
— Yung Pueblo (from The Inward Trilogy: Yung Pueblo Box Set) - "I'm safe inside this container called me."
— Haruki Murakami - "You can't buy happiness, but you can create it within yourself."
— Unknown - "Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."
— Ain Eineziz - "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
— Mark Twain
- "I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"
— Goldie Hawn - "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi - "It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me."
— Beyoncé - "I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."
— Henry James - "The things that make me different are the things that make me."
— A.A. Milne
- "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 - "As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow."
— Charlie Chaplin - "Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life."
— Mandy Hale - "One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."
— Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - "You can't hate yourself happy. You can't criticize yourself thin. You can't shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care."
— Jessica Ortner
- "I'm all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."
— Lizzo - "The happiest people don't have the best of everything; they make the best of everything."
— Unknown - "Embrace the glorious mess that you are."
— Elizabeth Gilbert - "You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."
— Bianca Sparacino - "Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."
— Les Brown
- "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
— Eleanor Roosevelt - "You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be OK on your own before you can be OK with somebody else. You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything."
— Jennifer Lopez - "I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That's what makes me uniquely me."
— Michelle Obama - "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves."
— Thomas Edison - "Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."
— Jane Fonda
- "And I said to my body, 'I want to be your friend.' It took a long breath. And replied, 'I have been waiting my whole life for this."
— Nayyirah Waheed - "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."
— Kim Guerra - "In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are."
— Steve Maraboli - "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
— Oprah Winfrey
- "Loving-kindness is a wellspring of peace and happiness that you can offer to others. But in order to do that, you must first have love and kindness for yourself."
— James R. Doty, M.D - "I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I'd want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."
— Emma Stone - "May you choose yourself, always!"
— Malebo Sephodi - "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 most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn
- "I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."
— Andie MacDowell - "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 - "By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."
— Laverne Cox
Self-Love Quotes for Men
- "Self-love is not about ego; it's about honoring and nurturing your authentic self."
— Matthew Hussey - "A real man is one who finds strength in self-love, not in the validation of others."
— Unknown - "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
— Kahlil Gibran - "A strong man loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, and perseveres."
— Unknown - "The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."
— Swati Sharma
- "A real man treats his lady the same way he wants another man to treat his daughter."
— Unknown - "You can't truly love another until you know how to love yourself."
— Michael B. Jordan - "A man who values and loves himself sets an example for others to do the same."
— Unknown - "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love yourself and be loved in return."
— Frank Sinatra - "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
— Mark Twain
- "Self-love is not about being perfect; it's about embracing your imperfections with compassion and grace."
— Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson - "A masculine man knows that true strength comes from self-awareness and emotional intelligence."
— Unknown - "Real men aren't afraid of showing love and affection."
— Unknown - "A man who loves and respects himself is not selfish; he knows the importance of self-care and self-improvement."
— Unknown - "Loving yourself doesn't make you weak; it makes you resilient."
— Jason Momoa
- "A real man knows that self-compassion is the first step towards growth and resilience."
— Unknown - "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
— Robert Tew - "Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice."
— Edwin Louis Cole - "A man who knows himself is confident in his purpose and direction."
— Unknown - "Loving yourself is a sign of maturity and emotional intelligence in a man."
— Unknown
Song Lyrics about Self-Love
- "It's a new dawn, it's a new day. It's a new life for me. Ooh, and I'm feeling good."
— Nina Simone, "Feeling Good" - "Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years."
— LL Cool J, "Mama Said Knock You Out" - "Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (hey). Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else (I love me). Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else. Anytime that I like (I love me)."
— Hailee Steinfeld, "Love Myself" - "Stop playing with your body, lady. Stop feeling like you're not enough. Stop feeding into the haters. Stop and give yourself some love."
— Jessie J, "Queen" - "I been working on me. I been loving on me. I had to learn to love myself"
— Jayson Lyric ft. Nevaeh, "Self Love"
- "You took me for a pushover. Oh you thought I was a pushover. Whoa, I'm not a pushover."
— Etta James, "Pushover" - "Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever, ever feel like you are less than, less than perfect."
— Pink, "Perfect" - "I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast. I love y'all, but I love me the most."
— Meghan Trainor, "I Love Me" - "The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all."
— Whitney Houston, "The Greatest Love of All" - "Strength, courage, and wisdom. And it's been inside of me all along."
— India.Arie, "Strength Courage & Wisdom"
