1. “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
2. “A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond.” ~ Solange Nicole
3. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
4. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” ~ Madonna
5. “For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.” ~ Sarah Dessen
6. “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” ~ August Wilson
7. “The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.” ~ Jerry Gillies
8. “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
9. “Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.” ~ Veda Upanishads
10. “As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified.” ~ Miranda J. Barrett
11. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally, it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” ~ Queen Latifah
12. “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
13. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” ~ Brian Andreas
14. “Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you will find comfort and guidance.” ~ Anonymous
15. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” ~ Nora Roberts
16. “True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.” ~ Albert Camus
17. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” ~ Sri Ravi Shankar
18. “Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” ~ Malcolm De Chazal
19. “If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally.” ~ Meister Eckhart
20. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” ~ Jodi Picoult
21. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ~ Shannon L. Alder
22. “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
23. “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.” ~ Louise Hay
24. “My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” ~ Shakti Gawain
25. “No one can make you feel inspired and beloved, except yourself.” ~Anonymous
26. “Loving yourself is the bravest thing in the world. People expect you to love others and live for others. But nobody will live for you and your love. You have to do this!” ~Anonymous
27. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” ~ Tina Fey
28. “When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” ~ Jodi Picoult
29. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ~ Shannon L. Alder
30. “Forget about your clothes. It’s the confidence that makes you sexy!”
31. “We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!” ~ Dr. Maya Angelou
32. “Life is swift and precious while it’s in our grasp. Loving yourself is such a small act of appreciation for the everlasting Love that breathed you into being and on whose wings you will be carried when it’s time to leave this life.” ~ Paula Reeves
33. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
34. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
35. “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” ~ Gary Zukav
36. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” ~Anonymous
37. “F.L.Y. First Love Yourself. Others will come next.”
38. “Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.”
39. “If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well”~Anonymous
40. “Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
41. “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
42. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ Anaïs Nin
43. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ~ E.E.Cummings
44. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ Anonymous
