Quotes About Self-love

But the real test of honor for a man is to live and learn to love himself.

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

Negative attention desecrates our altar. But we women have been giving ourselves negative attention so consistently, and for so long, that we do not even see it as a problem.

We have no experience prioritizing our own joy or making an investment in ourselves. But it is very easy to say yes to responsibility and obligation. We are highly motivated when we can be of service to someone else.

I'm not going to pretend to be something I'm not - to smile sweetly all the time - just to get recognition and love. I won't play the whore for anyone, least of all for journalists. I can't do that. I want to be loved, yes, but the way I am and not the way people would like me to be. I have to be allowed to be myself.

You can't accept another if you don't accept yourself

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Embrace yourself. Be not afraid.

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

Such was humanity's self-love, Nadar concluded, that most were inevitably disappointed when they finally saw a true image of themselves.

All the shiny surfaces reflected the other shiny surfaces, as though the house was in love with itself and couldn't stop winking and preening.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Basically, man, I just love myself.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

A woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.

I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.