Top 100 Love Yourself First Quotes
#1. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#2. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#3. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
#6. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. There
Chetan Bhagat
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.
Jennifer Lopez
#10. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'
Maya Angelou
#13. I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
#14. You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.
Jennifer Pierre
#15. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
#16. You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
Fred Rogers
#17. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
Oprah Winfrey
#19. Unless you learn how to love yourself first, you will not be able to truly love anyone else
Camilla Dorand
#20. Respect and love yourself first. Others will love you with trust.
Debasish Mridha
#21. If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. 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
#23. Love yourself first to fill your heart with bliss. Now give it away with humility, love, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Love yourself first in order to endlessly love others.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Love yourself first, it sets the tone for every other relationship in your life.
L.J. Vanier
#27. Love won't come through unless the heart is open. To work with an open heart is to love or care for something or someone more than you do for yourself. This is the first step to the divine love that we all are looking for.
Harold Klemp
#28. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.
Will Smith
#30. That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.
Sarah MacLean
#31. The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!
Behdad Sami
#32. You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
Wayne Dyer
#33. The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#34. Close your eyes. Let a smile as big bright and bold as a disco chorus blaze across your face. Fall in love with the universe and everything in it. See yourself for one moment as the subject of every love song ever written. And as she drifts to sleep beside you, start a brand new song.
J.C. Lillis
#35. Loving yourself is the most fulfilling and beautiful love that life has to offer.
Unfortunately, we're all looking to love someone else..
we're all looking to be loved by someone else, first.
Reyna Mays
#36. Everything has happened, is happening, and will happen FOR YOU (if you BELIEVE and ACTIVELY LIVE by this mentality)!
Shay Dawkins
#37. Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.
Gautama Buddha
#38. In order for us to learn to love, first ourselves and the others, we must accept Jesus' love for us in the deepest parts of our hearts.
Sara Dormon
#39. To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'
Jean Vanier
#40. To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.-Mark Miller
Mark Miller
#41. Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.
Russ Von Hoelscher
#42. The worst thing about somebody who betrays you, somebody who turns out to be a completely different person to whom you first thought, is the love that you still feel in your heart for them, embedded so deeply into the narrow spaces of yourself that you cannot access it to try and remove it. He
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#43. ... when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence ... in love, never settle ... value yourself first and this will help you to value others ... life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest ... everyone in the world is different, and that's ok ...
Spider Robinson
#44. when you betray to someone , first you betray to yourself, who speak somewhere inside you that you are a good human
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#46. No matter how many hours you keep undressing yourself you will never be able to take all your clothes off until you first manage to love your nakedness.
Angelos Michalopoulos
#47. This would be a perfect day if Ray were here with us, but he's not far away. He's doing well, and I know he'd like to enjoy yourself, Ana. To all of you, thank you for coming to share my beautiful wife's birthday, the first of many to come. Happy birthday, my love. - Christian Grey
E.L. James
#49. Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.
Debasish Mridha
#50. 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
#51. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.
Suze Orman
#52. 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 Sri Ravi Shankar
#53. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#54. Overcoming the world. And thus finding it. For we must not only be in it and above it, but of it too. To love it for what it is- how difficult! And yet it's the first, the only task. Evade it, and you are lost. Lose yourself in it and you are free.
Henry Miller
#55. Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
Patch Adams
#56. When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
Jane Campion
#57. Love yourself, open your heart which means doing the work on yourself first. Then love will follow.
Emily Morse
#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. They say learning to love yourself
Is the first step
That you take when you want to be real.
Tiesto
#60. When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono
#61. When you judge someone, you are judging yourself. When you hate someone, you are hating yourself. When you love someone, you are loving yourself. Nobody will ever betray, humiliate or hurt you, if you have not first betrayed, humiliated or hurt yourself.
Human Angels
#62. No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great.
Shay Dawkins
#63. Loving yourself first sets the tone for your entire life in every relationship.
L.J. Vanier
#64. One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY.
Shay Dawkins
#66. The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
Alice Nicholls
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. It doesn't matter what others think. This is about YOU. Create a life that you genuinely love with your whole heart & start with yourself.
Brittany Burgunder
#71. When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror.
Debasish Mridha
#72. Brother Kendrick Lamar: he's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author. And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another. But you can't do that, I said you can't do that, without loving yourself first.
Kendrick Lamar
#73. You might be the cruelest person I've ever met," he said in a conversational tone.
"What?" I gasped.
"My first wife killed herself. Took me centuries to get over it and love again, yet you weren't going to mention that you might be compelled to slay yourself in front of me.
Jeaniene Frost
#74. The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
Nathaniel Branden
#75. It taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne
"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip
Nora Roberts
#76. 36"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?" 37Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'a 38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Anonymous
#77. You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself.
Brenda Minton
#78. You may go through two, three, or more iterations of the product, and by the nth iteration, the model you created for the first iteration will be hopelessly inappropriate. Paradoxically, emphasizing a business model prematurely, you may block yourself from the best money-making opportunities.
Howard Love
#79. When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
Maya Angelou
#80. Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first, it means me too.
L.R. Knost
#82. I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.
My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.
Amen.
Aimee Bender
#83. It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
Alan Cohen
#84. The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn't
work out the first time.
Amanda Howells
#85. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley
#86. To be pure, forgive yourself.
To love others, forgive them first.
Debasish Mridha
#87. If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then DO NOT be afraid to LEAVE someone who is messing with YOUR MOOD in a detrimental way.
Shay Dawkins
#88. Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.
T.F. Hodge
#89. If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.
Bryant McGill
#90. The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.
Anne Graham Lotz
#91. Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#92. Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.
Matt Ross
#93. I don't know what mentality you young girls have these days. What happened to loving yourself first? You have to love yourself and God first before you give yourself to man. You young girls just ass backwards.
P. Dotson
#94. Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself you will have destroyed much that society has implanted within you. You will have become freer from the society and its conditioning.
Rajneesh
#95. I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.
Siobhan Davis
#96. I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].
Deena Kastor
#97. The truth is, you are your own "special someone," and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.
Deborah King
#98. When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
Patrick Dempsey
#99. It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.
Menna Van Praag
#100. Charlie had always been a sucker for this part ... the first days. The days when you let yourself believe the lies ... Not just that there's someone who truly sees you ... truly understands you ... to your soul ... but that you even want them to. That's the sweetest lie, the one you tell yourself.
Ed Brubaker
