Self-Care Quotes

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

— Eleanor Brown

“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.”

— Katie Reed

“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

“The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.”

– Bryant McGillns

“We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care.”

– Dr. Sara Gottfried

“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”

— Jill Bolte Taylor

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean me first; it means me too.”

– L.R. Knost

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”

— Audre Lorde

“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

“With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side.”

— Susan Weiss Berry

“Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.”

– Vironika Tugaleva

“You aren’t doing “nothing” when you choose to put your well-being first. In fact, this is the key to having everything.”

― Brittany Burgunder

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”

– Joyce Meyer

“Use your smile to change the world; don’t let the world change your smile.”

– Chinese Proverb

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

“Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.”

– Rob Liano

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”

– Kim McMillen

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”

— The Dalai Lama

“When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do.”

— John O’Donohue

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”

— Eartha Kitt

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

– Howard Washington Thurman

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

– Lucille Ball

“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

“When nobody celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”

– Joel Osteen

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

– Veronica A. Shoffstall

“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

– Alan Cohen

“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.”

— Venus Williams

“Self-care is never a selfish act–it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”

– Parker Palmer

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”

– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”

– Maxwell Maltz

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”

– Jean Shinoda Bolen

“Forget yesterday–it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow–you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift–today.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.”

— Kristi Ling

“When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”

— Coco Chanel

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

— Albert Einstein

“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”

— Tina Fey

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”

— Dolly Parton

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

— Maya Angelou

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.”

— Cecilia Tran

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people … The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.”

— Warren Buffett

“You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you’re around people. It’s hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That’s what it’s for.”

— India Arie

“Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.”

— Tara Westover

“Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.”

— Jonathan Van Ness

“People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.”

— Sanaya Roman

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

— Jack Kornfield