ᐅ169+ Self Love Quotes to Feel Your Best in Hard Times

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

"Be the love you never received." —Rune Lazuli

"Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful." —Cheryl Strayed

"I just wanted to remind you, in case you needed to hear it, to be kind and loving to yourself, and talk to yourself like you would talk to your best friend." —Camila Cabello

"Work on you, for you."

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

"I’m not going to apologize for who I am and I’m going to actually love the skin that I’m in. I’m not gonna be striving for some other version of myself." —Amy Schumer

"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." —Louise L. Hay

"Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, 'This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!' I'm proud of that." —Kate Winslet

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept." —Anna Taylor

"Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently." —Michelle Obama

"Put yourself first. Self-love is not selfish at all. It means that you’re taking care of yourself, and like my mom reinforced to me, to make sure that I was safe and that I was healthy." —Laurie Hernandez

"Being comfortable in your own skin is one of the most important things to achieve. I'm still working on it!" —Kate Mara

"I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.'" —Oprah Winfrey

"It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong." —Lena Dunham

"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life." —Elsie de Wolfe

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure." —Suzy Kassem

"Why do I have to be like everyone else? Why can’t people just let other people feel good about themselves and do what they want? Wear whatever you want people! As long as you feel good about yourself that’s what matters. Don’t ever let anyone stifle who you are and how you express yourself." —Arielle Winter

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." —Rumi

"Love is the absence of judgment." —Dhali Lama

"I always feel confident. I never allow myself to not feel confident." —Amber Rose

"I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die." —Serena Williams

"I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect." —Maya Angelou

"I woke up like this. Flawless." —Beyoncé

"She never needed to be saved. She only wanted to be loved the correct way. She wasn't looking for a hero. All she wanted was someone she could trust outside of herself." —r.h. Sin

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that." —Ellen DeGeneres

"Heal yourself first. The rest will come later."

"When life puts you in touchy situations, don't say, 'Why me?' Just say, 'Try me.'" —Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway." —Rupi Kaur

"Make peace with your broken pieces." —r.h. Sin

"I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right." —Cheryl Strayed

"Until I'm ready, let me be. I have to heal myself." —Samantha King

"You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it." —Ashley Graham

"Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts." —Bianca Sparacino

"It's you versus you." —Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Trust the next chapter because you are the author."

"You change the world by being yourself." —Yoko Ono