Top 94 If You Don't Love Yourself Quotes
#1. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Ellen J. Barrier
#2. I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#3. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
Dalai Lama
#4. If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
RuPaul
#5. If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
#6. If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
Jennifer Lopez
#7. 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 Bundchen
#9. If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.
Mandy Hale
#10. Many people make the mistake of expecting others to treat them in a more loving and respectful way than they treat themselves. If you don't love yourself, stop expecting others to. If you don't respect yourself, stop expecting others to.
Steve Maraboli
#11. You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself.
Lady Gaga
#13. No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people,
if you don't love yourself then it can never be enough.
Shannon Kaiser
#14. It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?
Dalai Lama
#15. Never stop loving yourself, for how can you truly love someone if you don't love yourself first. And never be afraid to love, for it is one of the most beautiful uglist things of this world.
Adrian Ross
#16. If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.
Joyce Meyer
#17. If you don't love yourself, no other love can save you.
Shaun Roundy
#18. How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?
Sean King
#19. If you don't love yourself, who is supposed to do it for you?
Rickson Gracie
#20. If only you knew how beautiful you are unconditionally. Don't you know it's enough if all you do is breathe?
Brittany Burgunder
#21. If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#22. Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love.
Jay Woodman
#23. We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.
Biz Stone
#24. I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
Donald Miller
#25. How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love
Robin S. Sharma
#26. Be yourself. If you water yourself down to please people or to fit in or to not offend anyone, you lose the power, the passion, the freedom and the joy of being uniquely you. It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.
Don Coppersmith
#27. Probably "I love my life" would be something I would say out loud to the planet - just that positive affirmation. And also, "Life is short," "Don't take yourself so seriously," and "Lighten the f - k up." And if that offends you, you really need to lighten the f - k up.
John Feldmann
#28. Stop punishing yourself if you scared of your memories with me. Don't do that ... Just stab me like this not you. It is only when you can stand on your feet that I can disappear with easy from your sight.
Ma-Roo
#29. You never know if that person likes you, you have to trust yourself. Don't be afraid to get hurt.
Anna Napper
#30. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.
Heather Sellers
#31. There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.
Chris Jericho
#32. People don't realize, if you love yourself and accept yourself for who you are, all those insecurities eventually fade away.
Winter Renshaw
#33. Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.
Silouan The Athonite
#34. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#35. You lack faith in others and yourself if you don't believe you can affect them with your love.
Sandra Leesmith
#36. If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
Jack LaLanne
#37. Love is ... you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.
Elizabeth Scott
#38. Be selfish sometimes. Love yourself. If you always put others before you, you will find yourself feeling beaten down by the world and that will make you bitter. Don't let the world make you bitter, not when you have such a beautiful soul.
Spencer Hoshino
#39. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. You're fooling yourself if you think I don't have those feelings for you, Tristan. I've fallen in love with you.
R.K. Lilley
#41. No one knows if he or she or anyone in his or her life will be here in the next five minutes. Don't hold back on expressing yourself. Tell that special person today how you feel, give a hug, cast a smile instead of a frown, and don't forget to tell those you love that you love them.
Suzane Northrop
#42. If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
T.D. Jakes
#43. What good is "Loving thy neighbor as thyself" if you don't Love thyself?
Donald L. Hicks
#44. Love people with all sincere attention, but don't overdo it as if you are not special. Don't lose yourself in the process of loving other people. Remember, you are special too!
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
Adam Green
#46. One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.
Jael McHenry
#47. You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.
Anthony Hopkins
#48. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#49. I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.
Dev Hynes
#50. If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.
Rajneesh
#51. LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.
Scarlett Johansson
#52. Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
Jon Bon Jovi
#53. Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.
Alli Simpson
#54. Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today ... just pray for rapture.
Jevon L. Mack
#55. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.
Kimberly Karalius
#56. He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.'
'Ah, no,' said the King. 'It's only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don't actually do it, well, that's love.
Heather Dixon
#57. There's a reason why relationships don't work out. It's usually better to take a few steps back if you have any doubts before it gets complicated and you find yourself in a tangled web, not of your doing, but somehow you end up paying the price.
E.R. Wade
#58. I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'
Meghan Trainor
#59. Don't be too worthwhile. Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties.If you must be noble, keep it to yourself
Edward Stone
#60. Don't turn a good dude who is loyal to his chick into a bad nigga by throwing yourself at him when he is already committed. Know when to stay the hell away.Good men are rare. If he aint single, don't make him unfaithful. Oh Yes, he might cheat with some other chick. It does not have to be you.
Crystal Evans
#61. The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.
Joel Osteen
#62. Love yourself as much you can before loving others. If you don't have something, you can't give it to anyone.
Debasish Mridha
#63. One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#64. If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.
Joyce Meyer
#65. I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.
Julianne Hough
#66. Stop telling yourself you that you aren't lovable because it's pissing me off. I don't care if you aren't ready to admit how you really feel about me yet, but don't you dare dismiss how I feel about you. Because I love you.
Colleen Hoover
#67. Shit, there goes our chance at winning." Pey laughed. "A cocky quarterback that's in love with himself. We'll be lucky if you don't stop every two seconds to check yourself out.
Priya Kanaparti
#68. Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way.
Tegan Quin
#69. Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.
Stevie Nicks
#70. You have to get new knowledge and force yourself to really implement what you've learned. You have to set boundaries in place for yourself. The important thing is if you don't know real love, someone will teach youself hate.
Tony Gaskins
#71. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.
Ray Bradbury
#72. You realize you've forgiven people, your past and yourself when you don't speak bad about them anymore, even if you're encouraged to do so, even if you remember you were once brutally broken because of them ...
you just move on, let go, let them be and let yourself be ...
Sanhita Baruah
#73. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.
Stacy London
#74. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#75. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Walter Isaacson
#76. 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
#77. If you give them enough of yourself, they might realize that you're bleeding out from the pieces of you you keep giving them, and maybe give you something back. But then they don't. So you sit there. Less than you were.
Danielle Jordan
#78. Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.
Katherine Anne Porter
#79. I whispered to him,
You'll regret it if you let me go.
I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow'
He didn't believe me, he made his choice
&
That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.
Nikki Rowe
#80. Love is all about guts. If you have it, you fight with the world. If you don't, you fight with yourself.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#81. If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it.
Caroline to Peggy
Elizabeth McCracken
#82. You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.
Laura Dave
#83. Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.
Anne Perry
#84. I don't know how you're going to find Noah Scott or if he already knows you're coming or hell, if you've been having cybersex with him for five years, and I don't give a shit. What I do know is that I love you, and that I want you to find yourself and come back to me.
C.M. Stunich
#85. There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.
Demi Moore
#86. You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere
D.H. Lawrence
#87. I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. Blige
#88. Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.
Logan Mankins
#89. If you don't start going after WHAT YOU WANT, then you will NEVER GET WHAT YOU WANT! Do you want to be on your death bed wondering, 'WHAT IF? WHAT IF I would've quit letting life pass me by and just went for it?!' JUST GO FOR IT! LIVE ALL OUT!
Shay Dawkins
#90. Life is going by, and if you don't do something about your dreams and make them a reality and start to love who you are as yourself, then you will not be able to embrace any of those dreams. Who you are is the immense magic.
Ellen Greene
#91. you. If you parrot negative things and squawk about the things you don't love, you are literally jailing yourself, like a parrot in a cage.
Rhonda Byrne
#92. What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.
Cornelius Eady
#93. Love is a learned behavior. If you don't learn how to love yourself someone will teach you how to hate yourself.
Tony Gaskins
#94. Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it ...
Jeanette Winterson
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