Self-love Quotes

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Self-love is the source of all our other loves. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. View quote
Thomas Traherne
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Our first and last love is self-love. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Self-love seems so often unrequited. View quote
Anthony Powell
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. View quote
William Shakespeare
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves. (James Madison)
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them. View quote
William Hazlitt
Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love... View quote
Henry Taylor
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. View quote
Seneca
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love. View quote
François Fénelon
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. View quote
Alexander von Humboldt
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. View quote
Mason Cooley
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter. (Johann Georg Hamann)
Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself. View quote
Angie Stone
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous. View quote
Geoff Mulgan