Self-love quotes

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 · View source

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 3, section 9 · View source

“Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.”

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V, Act 2, Scene 4 · View source

“Within you lies indomitable power.”

Swami Vivekananda

The Complete Works, Volume 7 — Conversations and Dialogues VII · View source

“That man alone is wise who keeps the mastery of himself!”

Bhagavad Gita

The Song Celestial, Chapter II — Edwin Arnold translation · View source

“Let each man raise the Self by Soul, not trample down his Self.”

Bhagavad Gita

The Song Celestial, Chapter VI — Edwin Arnold translation · View source

“बुरा जो देखन मैं चला बुरा न मिलिया कोय। जो दिल खोजौं आपना मुझसा बुरा न कोय॥”

English meaning: I went looking for faults in others and found none; when I searched my own heart, I found the fault within myself.

Kabir

कविता-कौमुदी १ — कबीर साहब, दोहा १४६ · View source

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, Chapter 23 · View source

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre, Chapter 27 · View source