Self-Care Quotes II

“Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.”

— Beth Behrs

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”

— Alice Walker

“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”

— Tyra Banks

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

— Og Mandino

“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”

— Pierre Corneille

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

— Rumi

“Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.”

— Carrie Anne Moss

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”

— Charles Dickens

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

— Audre Lorde

“Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.”

-Akiroq Brost

“Self-care means considering yourself a worthwhile person and presenting yourself as valuable, capable, and deserving. In other words, self-care seeks to redress an imbalance that develops when you don’t take proper care of yourself, whether by inattention or by choice.”

- Arin Murphy-Hiscock

“Self-care is your fuel ... Whatever the road ahead or the path you’ve taken, self-care is what keeps your motor running and your wheels turning.”

- Melissa Steginus

“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”

— Solange Knowles

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

“Self-care is how you take your power back.”

— Lalah Delia

“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”

— Billie Jean King

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

— C.S. Lewis

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.”

— Tracee Ellis Ross

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

“It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.”

— Faith Hill

“You are in a much better position to serve others when your basis needs are met and your ‘tank is full’.”

— Michael Hyatt

“Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up.”

— Mary Lambert

“By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty.”

— Ali Washington

“Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.”

— Gina Greenlee

“There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up.”

— Jennifer Williamson

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”

— Sydney J. Harris

"Having the ability to become friends with yourself is a powerful thing."

— Maybell Eequay

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

— Maya Angelou

“Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.”

— Laurie Buchanan, Ph.D.

“An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.”

-Unknown

“Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.”

– Unknown

“When the body forces you to STOP it’s saying, hey buddy, you’ve gone too far.”

― Jacqueline Escolme

You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.”

–Unknown

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

- Anne Lamott

“The challenge is not to be perfect—it is to be whole.”

-Jane Fonda

“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.”

- Michelle Obama

“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.”

– Alice Walker

“Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself.”

-Melodie Beattie

“We can climb mountains with self-love.”

—Samira Wiley

“Your brain is like a computer, you have to refresh or it’s going to crash. I don’t [care] how great you are, you have to take a second.”

– Missy Elliot

“I always try to remember that I’ll be the best me I can be if I prioritize myself”

– Michelle Obama

“Power is not given to you. You have to take it."

- Beyoncé Knowles

“Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”

- Beyoncé Knowles

“Remember this in the darkest moments, when the work doesn’t seem worth it, and change seems just out of reach: out of our willingness to push through comes a tremendous power . . . use it.”

-Stacey Abrams

“Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think.”

-Misty Copeland

Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

– Ella Fitzgerald

Whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free . . . your true self comes out.

– Tina Turner

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."

- Charles Bukwoski

“Self-care has become a new priority – the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.”

― Frances Ryan

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

- Anna Quindlen