Self-Love Quotes

• Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

  

  Aristotle
  • Culture
  • Moral
  • Friendship

• We can climb mountains with self-love.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Mountains
  • Climb
  • Self-Love

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Please
  • Scorn
  • Pleasing

• Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Marriage
  • Surgeon
  • Deity

• Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • U.S.
  • Self-Love
  • Ads

• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Reality
  • Often
  • Self-Love

• Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Enemies
  • Friendships
  • Situations

• I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fear
  • Esteem
  • Self-Esteem

• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  

  James Martineau
  • Blind
  • Possibilities
  • Dwell

• I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Self-Love

• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Violence

• The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Wounds
  • Self-Love
  • Incurable

• The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • God
  • Humans
  • Achievement

• Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Self – love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self – neglecting.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sin
  • Neglecting
  • Vile

• Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Shine
  • Sunglasses

• There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Charity
  • Greatest
  • Devoutness

• Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Verdict
  • Confirming

• Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Self-Love

• Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Blame

• All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Perfect

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