Top 66 Self-Love Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Self-Love Quotes from famous people such as Joseph Butler, Tess Holliday, Shailene Woodley, Elvis Mitchell, Ashley Nell Tipton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler
Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!
Tess Holliday
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
Shailene Woodley
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Joseph Butler
Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper’s precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.
Elvis Mitchell
People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love… it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.
Ashley Nell Tipton
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Angie Stone
It’s really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don’t relate to.
Devin Townsend
A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
Delilah
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Amity Gaige
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.
Tara Westover
All of us wish we’d had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
Marianne Williamson
To be a Hottie you gotta have a lot of self-love, a lot of confidence, you gotta be able to put your foot down. Hotties are supposed to turn other people into Hotties too. If you see someone that’s not quite confident, you gotta be the Hottie to gas up your friend.
Megan Thee Stallion
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
If you’re not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.
Tyrese Gibson
I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full of pride and self-love and have the chance to be loved for who he truly is. I was realising with great sadness that I didnt get that experience.
Darren Hayes
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
Joseph Butler
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
Joseph Butler
Probably the advice I could follow more is the self-love sort of advice. I think, four out of every five days, I’m good at that, but certain situations can trigger self-doubt or cloudiness around how I feel about myself.
Jonathan Van Ness
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan
I don’t think anyone’s ever accused me of too much self-love.
Meghan Daum
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne
As much as I preach self-love, it’s so hard for me to love myself. It’s really hard, and it’s just about building a good network of people and, in this case, a good network of artists. Trying to live your ideals as best as you can.
Petra Collins
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Joseph Butler
Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
Fatema Mernissi
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
Marley Dias
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes
My book, ‘The Total Me-Tox,’ is about self-care and self-love and how they lead to success and empowerment. My goal is to encourage women to be their best selves in a warm, friendly way. Think human, not superhuman.
Beth Behrs
I'm really about body positivity and self-love, and I w

I’m really about body positivity and self-love, and I will definitely push the boundary with a pink midriff-baring top.
Jonathan Van Ness
I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.
Emily Levine
Self-love is a big part of golf.
Lewis Black
Loving our hair and accepting others’ is a simple but powerful way to encourage self-love and bring people together while celebrating our uniqueness.
Carolyn Aronson
People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.
Lauren London
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
Saint Ignatius
If you don’t know where to find self-love, you’re going to spend the rest of your life trying to find it somewhere else.
Jeannie Mai
Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God’s service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
Saint Ignatius
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron
We can climb mountains with self-love.
Samira Wiley
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire
L’Oreal’s slogan ‘because you’re worth it’ has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.
Geoff Mulgan
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
Joseph Butler
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Samuel Richardson
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell
Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.
Nicola Roberts
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don’t do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them… It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.
Elizabeth Smart
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Gordon W. Allport
Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.
Manisha Koirala
I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.
Jamila Woods
It’s challenging to find self-love when there’s confusion and you’re living in a world that’s seemingly very binary and black and white.
Tommy Dorfman
If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.
Lzzy Hale
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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