Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
—Marcia Wieder
Most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
—Les Brown
Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.
—Jane Porter (1776–1850) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist, Pioneer of Historical Fiction
There’s only one me, and I’m stuck with him.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
—Barbara De Angelis (b.1951) American Self-Help Author
Love thyself last.—Cherish the hearts that hate thee.—Be just and fear not.—Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country’s, thy God’s, and truth’s; then if thou fallest, thou fallest a blessed martyr.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious. – Whitman, Walt.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
—Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist
Our self-love is ever ready to revolt from our better judgment, and join the enemy within.
—Richard Steele (1672–1729) Irish Writer, Politician
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
It is falling in love with our own mistaken ideas that makes fools and beggars of half mankind.
—Edward Young (1683–1765) English Poet
To dream of the person you’d like to be, is a waste to the person you are.
—Unknown
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach (b.1947) American Self-help Author
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer
Self-love is, in almost all men, such an overweight that they are incredulous of a man’s habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from excessive self-love. He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
—Sally Kempton (1943–2023) American Meditation Teacher, Author, Journalist
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
—Red Auerbach (1917–2006) American Basketball Coach
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
—Walt Disney (1901–66) American Entrepreneur
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: “This is the real me!”
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, and philosophy sink under it.
—Epicurus (c.341–270 BCE) Greek Philosopher
Learn what you are and be such.
—Pindar (c.518–c.438 BCE) Greek Lyric Poet
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