QUOTES ABOUT LOVING YOURSELF: THE BEST QUOTES ABOUT SELF-LOVE AND SELF-ESTEEM

Trusting in our abilities, accepting ourselves with all our flaws and imperfections, not falling down in the face of difficulties and above all not diminishing oneself: as many famous authors say in their sentences, loving oneself can become a great challenge for many, also because of different battles and exploits that life puts us along our path. However, only by respecting ourselves as we are can we live in harmony with ourselves and with all those around us.

It often happens that our self-esteem is undermined, but there are some exercises to be able to improve it.

We have collected the most beautiful and meaningful phrases on "loving yourself, written by novelists, poets and philosophers of the present and of the past. Each sentence reflects on a particular aspect of this topic, which is as delicate as it is important: ranging from the quotes that exhort to" love for the aphorisms that explain how it is essential to accept oneself because they are unique.

Aphorisms that urge self-love

Let's start with authentic exhortations to self-love. In this section, in fact, you will find all the most famous quotes that act as warnings, which we must always keep in mind. Loving oneself is seen as that fundamental step to be able to live peacefully and to be able to accomplish any goal.

You yourself, like anyone else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

There are moments in which the three a principle applies: listen to yourself, accept yourself, love yourself.
Anonymous

Success is loving yourself, loving what you do, and loving how you do it.
Maya Angelou

Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong love story.
Oscar Wilde

Do not forget to love yourself.
Søren Kierkegaard

The biggest struggle is to love yourself.
Jared Leto

When I began to truly love myself, I got rid of everything that was not doing me good: food, people, things, situations and everything that pulled me down and away from myself. At first I called it "healthy selfishness", but today I know this is self-love.
Charlie Chaplin

Love who you are, the way you are. Never compare yourself to others.
Sergio Bambarén

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosvelt

Man at peace with himself, who accepts himself, makes his infinitesimal contribution to the good of the universe. Everyone pays attention to their inner and personal conflicts and will have reduced the world's conflict by a millionth of a million.
Carl Gustav Jung

It is not love that must be described as blind, but self-love.
Voltaire

The main task in everyone's life is to give birth to himself.
Erich Fromm

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

Don't worry just about being better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Just try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Love yourself first and everything else will follow. You really have to love yourself to do something in this world.
Lucille Ball

The best quotes on self respect

There can be no love without respect. We tend to respect others even in the most difficult situations, but we struggle to be so tolerant towards us. This habit can lead us to a poor consideration of ourselves and of what we need: here are some sentences that explain the importance of self-respect.

If you want to be respected by others, the best thing is to respect yourself. Only in this way, only with self-love, will you force others to respect you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Love for oneself. Respect for oneself. You must love yourself. Like you. Only then will others love you. In your home, the best guest is you, above all others. Those come later.
Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Respect yourself. Love of yourself is the most important story that you will have the good fortune to live.
Anonymous

Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius

The man who is ashamed of his work cannot have respect for himself.
Bertrand Russell

Laugh at yourself before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell

Loving yourself begins with pleasing yourself, which begins with self-respect, which begins with thinking about yourself in positive ways.
Anonymous

Loving yourself means accepting yourself as a person worthy of respect.
Wayne Dyer

The most beautiful phrases on the importance of being yourself

We live more and more often in a world where fashions and trends are followed. Homologation seems the preferred way and, perhaps, also the simplest one. However, even the great authors have pointed out that authenticity and being oneself are integral parts of self-love and fundamental for a happy life.

It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not.
André Gide

Being beautiful means being yourself. It is not necessary to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thích Nhất Hạnh

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was the key to giving myself more love.
Oprah Winfrey

The more you like yourself, the less you are like someone else, which is what makes you unique.
Walt Disney

Only I can judge myself. I know my past, I know the reason for my choices, I know what I have inside. I know how much I have suffered, I know how strong and fragile I can be, me and no one else.
Oscar Wilde

It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one is not.
André Gide

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs

Always be the best version of yourself and not someone else's bad copy.
Judy Garland

The aphorisms about accepting and believing in oneself

Still on the subject of self-esteem and self-confidence, we have collected several quotes that urge you to accept yourself as you are, with all your strengths and weaknesses, and to believe in your abilities even in moments of greatest difficulty.

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself, and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts you can receive.
Brittany Burgunder

To be strong you have to love yourself; to love oneself one must know oneself in depth, know everything about oneself, even the most difficult things to accept.
Susanna Tamaro

We start loving each other when we don't criticize ourselves. Negative judgment imprisons us in the very frame of mind we are trying to change. Being understanding and good to ourselves helps us get out of it. Remember that you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Instead, try to like yourself and see what happens.
Louise Hay

Trust yourself, every heart vibrates on that iron rope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only when we become capable of loving and trusting ourselves that we can also love and trust others.
Michela Marzano

The worst enemy of creativity is a lack of self-confidence.
Anonymous

Do not lose courage in considering your imperfections, but dedicate yourself to correcting them, and every day start your task again.
St. Francis de Sales

As soon as you have confidence in yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe in yourself. Create the kind of person that you will be happy to live your entire life.
Golda Meir

Phrases on how loving yourself is essential to be able to love others

Finally, we must never forget how we cannot love other people if we do not love ourselves first. Self-love is the basis of any other feeling of affection addressed to individuals other than us. Given the importance of this issue, here are a few sentences that best describe it.

Love yourself first and everything else will follow. You really have to love yourself to do something in this world.
Lucille Ball

When we take 100 percent responsibility and truly love ourselves, kindness, consideration and responsibility to others come easily, because when we love ourselves it comes naturally to love others.
Mabel Katz

As long as you don't love yourself, you will never feel loved.
Arnaud Desjardins

Fall in love with you, with life and after whoever you want.
Frida Kahlo

You have to start, first of all, by loving yourself. You love others, every day you say to someone: "I love you", but how many times do you say to yourself: "I love myself"?
Sri Swami Vishwananda

You have to learn to love yourself. How can others appreciate what you have to offer if you don't value it?
Steve Maraboli

Without self-love, love for others is not possible either. Self-hatred is exactly the same as flagrant selfishness and ultimately leads to the same cruel isolation, to the same desperation.
Hermann Hesse

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
Osho

When we take one hundred percent responsibility and truly love ourselves, kindness, consideration and responsibility to others come easily, because when we love ourselves it comes naturally to love others.
Mabel Katz

I believe that self-love generates enormous love for others, because one thinks: well, if I can love myself, I can really love anything.
Neale Donald Walsch

Maybe you don't know anything about love for yourself, because you've never loved yourself. But you loved others, and you must have caught some fleeting glimpses.
Osho

The way you love yourself is the way you teach others to love you.
Rupi Kaur