120 Self-Care Quotes to Remind You of Your Worth

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Modern lifestyles are nothing if not hectic. Between busy professional lives and lengthy lists of personal responsibilities, the average person’s mental plate is honestly pretty full these days. Burnout, anxiety, and stress-related ailments are common, making it more important than ever to make time to practice adequate self-care.

In fact, taking care of yourself (inside and out) can make all the difference between successfully maintaining that delicate balancing act life requires of us all these days and having stress get the better of you. Tools like inspiring self-care quotes can help those new to the process get on the right track and reach a place where almost everything else falls into place.

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What Is Self-Care?

“By making choices that break old habits and create new norms, our hope edges ever closer to becoming our reality.”
– Lisa Charles (Yes! Commit. Do. Live.)

“Self-care” refers to the practice of taking proper care of one’s well-being. Self-care practices and routines can certainly target physical health, but mental and emotional health are part of the equation, as well.

The best self-care practices look a bit different from person to person, but some examples of common approaches and activities include:

Meditating
Journaling
Maintaining a healthy diet
Exercising regularly
Make sure to get enough sleep
Scheduling massages or spa treatments
Spending time communing with nature
Setting healthy boundaries

Benefits of Practicing Self-Care

“Hope represents the possibility to do better. Hope enables the reality of endless growth and change and the achievement of overall balance within our lives.”
– Lisa Charles (Yes! Commit. Do. Live.)

Contrary to what some once believed, self-care isn’t about being selfish; it isn’t something people do instead of caring for others. You can’t pour from an empty cup, so self-care gives you the foundation to take care of your responsibilities and safeguard your mental health.

Making self-care an ongoing part of your life and routine brings additional benefits to the table, as well, including the following:

Stronger, healthier relationships
Better focus
More energy
Higher productivity
Better mental health
Stronger sense of well-being and self-love
Better coping mechanisms when it comes to stress
Improved overall health

In other words, the sooner you make self-care the priority it should be, the sooner you can start taking advantage of the benefits. Here are some powerful self-care quotes to inspire you and get started in the right direction.

Self-Care Quotes for Nurturing Your Mind

The mind-body connection is real, so your state of mind absolutely affects other aspects of your health and well-being. For that reason, nurturing and caring for your mind is the first step in any thorough self-care routine. Here are some inspirational quotes to help you get started.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
“Self-care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia
“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”– Brian Andreas
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”– Jack Kornfield
“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”– Christopher Germer
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”– Unknown
“Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” – Ray Bradbury
“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
“Bask in the warmth of your own light.” — Amy Perez
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” — Banksy
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda
“Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean me first; it means me too.” — L.R. Knost
“You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.” — Morgan Harper Nichols
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
“Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” — Alice Walker
“Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.” — Jackie Viramontez
“True self-care is an inside job” — Meghan Rabbitt
“Self-care should move you toward a life you don’t need to run away from.” — Rina Raphael
“Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love, and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.” ― Miranda J. Barrett
“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.” — Dalai Lama
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world”. — Lucille Ball

Self-Care Quotes for Caring for Your Body

Good health is precious – something to be guarded, cultivated, and taken care of. The following quotes can help inspire you to reinvest in your physical health, whether that’s via a new workout routine or a better night’s sleep.

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”– Edward Stanley
“Everybody is different, and everybody is different.” – Beverly Diehl
“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde
“Take care of your body; it’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn
“Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning.” — Muhammad Ali
“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” — Golda Poretsky
“The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.” – Unknown
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams
“Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.” — William Shakespeare
“I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.” — Barbara Bush
“Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.” — Beth Behrs
“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
“Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.” — Mary Catherine Bateson
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” — Phyllis Diller
“I love a warm bath at the end of a day.” — Cynthia Nixon
“Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.” — Cecilia Tran
“Part of courage is simple consistency.” — Peggy Noonan
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.” — Abiola Abrams
“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
“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brownn
“Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.” — TWLOHA
“It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne

Self-Care Quotes for Cultivating Emotional Resilience

When it comes to life, things will always get you down or hurt you emotionally, but it’s how you bounce back that really matters. Here are some quotes about emotional resiliency to help you cultivate positive self-care practices.

“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” — Maya Angelou
“Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
“Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.” — Sophia Loren
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou
“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.” — Caroline Myss
“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” — Emil Dorian
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.” — Anne Lamott
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis
“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.” — Demi Lovato
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” — Angela Duckworth
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” — Thomas A. Edison
“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.” — Epictetus
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.” — Gever Tulley
“We gain strength and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
“Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” — Stephen Covey
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron
“No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” – Greg Kincaid
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
“Don’t despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don’t – surrender to events with hope.” – Alain de Botton
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

Self-Care Quotes for Building Healthy Relationships

Great connections with others form the backbone of a good life well lived, and healthy self-care can help you make important relationship progress in your life. Here are some empowering self-care quotes to help you on your journey.

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.” – Robin Williams
“A healthy relationship is a feast of affection/giving for both people; not one receiving crumbs and trying to convince themselves it’s enough.” – Shannon Thomas
“Love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” – Joyce Meyer
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem
“As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you will always be miserable, because that is actually your job.” – Linda Alfiori
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” – Brene Brown
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.” – Donald Miller
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” – Maya Angelou
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
“A healthy relationship is one in which love enriches you; not imprisons you.” — Steve Maraboli
“A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.” — Dinkar Kalotra
“Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it’s not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.” — Amy Grant
“Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.” — Miles Franklin
“Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.” — Nicholas Sparks
“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
“In a healthy relationship, it’s not about control, it’s about care.” — Unknown
“In relationships, the little things are the big things.” — Stephen R. Covey
“A relationship without trust is like a car without gas. You can stay in it, but it won’t go anywhere.” — Unknown
“The best relationships are the ones where you don’t give up on each other.” — Unknown
“When you look for a person and you can’t find them, left or right, they’re probably right behind you, supporting you.” — Unknown

Self-Care Quotes for Encouraging Personal Growth

Empowering yourself to grow perpetually in life is the highest form of self-care. Here are a few life quotes to help inspire you to take those next steps and cultivate good things in your life.

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually, the confidence will follow.” – Carrie Fisher
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
“Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.” – Wayne Dyer
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
“My belief is that every woman is worthy, a walking treasure, and deserves to live her life as the heroine of her own story.” ― Jada Pinkett Smith
“You cannot uneducated the person who has learned to read.” – Cesar Chavez
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Change brings opportunity.” – Nido Qubein
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
“Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
“Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it.” – Sundar Pichai
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
“When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that’s when you’re more successful. You have to choose to do it.” – Simone Biles

The best way to reap the benefits of a solid self-care routine is to incorporate it into your daily routine. Do something each day to feel good, treat yourself well, and prioritize your health. Exercise, eat right, get enough sleep each night, and spend at least a little time doing something that lights you up inside. It won’t be long before you notice the difference.

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