243 Inspiring Quotes for Self-Love and Personal Growth

"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Self-love is the decision to be in a lifelong romance with yourself."

- Yung Pueblo

"You're allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Brianna Wiest

"Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you."

- Steve Maraboli

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone."

- Maya Angelou

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

- Yung Pueblo

"Love yourself, fiercely and unconditionally."

- Atticus

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here."

- Max Ehrmann

"You are the only person who can love yourself wholly and completely. Don't rely on others to fill that space."

- Cynthia Occelli

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"The journey of self-love begins when you let go of who you think you have to be."

- Yung Pueblo

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."

- Sugar Ray Robinson

"Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life."

- Mandy Hale

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

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

- Steve Jobs

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

- C. JoyBell

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

- Rumi

"Know your worth, hold your own power, be you."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again."

- Osho

"To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are."

- Anne Lamott

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"The first step to loving who you are is to accept who you are, including the parts you might not be proud of. Embrace your journey and believe in your potential."

- Jasmine Star

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance."

- Robert Holden

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafiz of Shiraz

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

- Frida Kahlo

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."

- Robert Tew

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"You are deserving of the love that resides within you."

- Brianna Wiest

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

- Kathryn Budig

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious; you get to choose how you use it."

- Brianna Wiest

"When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"We are who we believe we are."

- C.S.Lewis

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything."

- Ashleigh Murray

"Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there."

- Venus Williams

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you'll be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

- Golda Meir

"True beauty is the flame of self-confidence that shines from the inside out."

- Barrie Davenport

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it."

- Jack Kornfield

"You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"The problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding onto your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"Be kind to yourself, and then let your kindness fill the world."

- Pema Chödrön

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."

- Maya Angelou

"I am my best work—a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines."

- Audre Lorde

"Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain

"In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Love yourself enough to follow your passions."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

- Toni Morrison

"Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life but by diving deep within."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

- Anne Frank

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Inner peace is not about denying emotions but accepting them and allowing them to pass through you without resistance."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"Change is inevitable, but growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing."

- Mandy Hale

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"You have to believe in yourself, that you're gonna succeed."

- Cindy Margolis

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle."

- Jon Acuff

"If you hear a voice within you say that you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything."

- Katy Perry

"To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."

- Muhammad Ali

"Just believe that there is genuine creative magic in believing, and magic there will be, for belief will supply the power which will enable you to succeed in everything you undertake."

- Claude M. Bristol

"Don't limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there."

- Bianca Frazier

"You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can — including the obstacles — to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?"

- Richard Branson

"I am the greatest. I said that before I even knew I was."

- Muhammad Ali

"There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong."

- Jennifer van Allen

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride, and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

- William Hazlitt

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Just really believe in yourself and stay true to yourself."

- Mirai Nagasu

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Be you, love you. All ways, always."

- Alexandra Elle

"I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren't more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they'll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be."

- Kristin Neff

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."

- Dodinsky

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love."

- Maza Dohta

"Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility."

- Denice Frohman

"Your self-worth grows when you fight for something you love."

- Maxime Lagacé

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

- Mark Twain

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."

- N.R. Narayana Murthy

"Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time, it's both."

- Kristin Kreuk

"Count your blessings, not your troubles."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."

- Rumi

"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears."

- Anthony Robbins

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it."

- Gautama Buddha

"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"You do not just wake up and become the butterfly – growth is a process."

- Rupi Kaur

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Don't forget that you're human. It's okay to have a meltdown, just don't unpack and live there. Cry it out and then refocus on where you are headed."

- Brianna Wiest

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up."

- Neha Dhupia

"It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself."

- Donatella Versace

"Once you believe in yourself, you can pretty much do whatever you want in my opinion, so that is the main thing."

- Lonzo Ball

"You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground."

- A. J. McLean

"You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it."

- Cynthia Weil

"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

"It would be a great disappointment for you to give up on yourself before the appointed time to reap the fruit of your labor."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better."

- Tiger Woods

"I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability."

- Ram Dass

"Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than you have in mind."

- David G. Allen

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."

- Charles Glassman

"The only Zen you can find on the mountaintop is the Zen you bring up there."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Whatever purifies you is the right path."

- Rumi

"When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself."

- Cat Osterman

"Commit to what you love – that's important. Believe in yourself and try as much as possible to do everything you do from a place of love. Not labor, but love."

- Michael Mando

"I believe in myself over everyone else. There's nothing that walks on two legs that I'm afraid of."

- Renzo Gracie

"I bend but do not break."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"To anyone that ever told you you're no good, they're no better."

- Hayley Williams

"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking."

- Steve Jobs

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally."

- Chris Kattan

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, 'Love me.' Of course, you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon vision, 'Love me."

- Hafez

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

- Mark Twain

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you."

- Roy Croft

"Patience is the art of hoping."

- Luc de Clapiers

"Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door."

- Coco Chanel

"The gray area, the place between black and white — that's the place where life happens."

- Justin Timberlake

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice."

- Edwin Louis Cole

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Every setback is a setup for a comeback."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."