Sometimes we can only express ourselves through the words of others. These positive love your body quotes for yourself are meant to help you understand how you feel about your body or to motivate you to improve your perspective toward it.
Love for your body takes time. And even if you do love your body, you may not love it forever. This is why I believe body acceptance is so powerful. You may accept where you are, and enjoying your body is just an added benefit.
These quotes are a mix of both, and I believe they will inspire you to start reframing your thinking, even if only a little. We all started somewhere.
I can’t promise you’ll love your body by the end of this list of quotes, but I can promise that at least some of them will encourage you to reconsider your body image and relationship with it.
I’m sure you want to read those positive love your body quotes, so let’s get to it!
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1. “I’m not going to apologize for who I am, and I’m actually going to love the skin I’m in, not strive for some other version of myself.” — Amy Schumer
2. “And I said to my body. softly. ‘I want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” — Nayyirah Waheed
3. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
4. “Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.” — Brittany Burgunder
5. “Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like.” — Emma Watson
6. “Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.” — Steve Maraboli
7. “Love your body because you only have one.”
8. “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” — Ian Wallace
9. “You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem!’” — Jennifer Lopez
10. “You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.” — Alyssa B Sheinmel
11. “Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.” — Cheri K. Erdman
12. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.” — Sophia Bush
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13. “One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself. No matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body, I got tire of hating myself.” — Gabourey Sidibe
14. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
15. “One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body.” — Gabourey Sidibe
16. “Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.” — Eve Ensler
17. “I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body + can say that she loves it + doesn’t want to change anything.” — Emma Watson
18. “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” — Amy Bloom
19. “We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.” — Lori Deschene
20. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” — C. JoyBell C.
21. “Pretty much the strongest, most badass, and rebellious thing that you can do is to love your body in this world that screams at you that you shouldn’t.” — Laura Bates, Girl Up
22. “I don’t look in the mirror and go, ‘Oh, I look fantastic!’ Of course, I don’t. Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!’ I’m proud of that.” — Kate Winslet
23. “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” — Astrid Alauda
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24. “You don’t have to fully love yourself. You just have to have that little thread of “I’m doing this for me”.” — Chelsea Charlotte
25. “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
26. “And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend. It took a long breath and replied, “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.” — Nayyirah Waheed
27. “Self-love is not vanity; it’s sanity.” — Katrina Mayer
28. “Your body is the piece of the universe you’ve been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with an ongoing shower of immediate sensate experiences.” — Geneen Roth
29. “Eyes closed, feet dancing their way toward the pond, she was her own music, her body her favorite thing she’d ever owned.” — Tahereh Mafi
30. “You are beautiful because you are fearfully and wonderfully made.” — Psalm 139:14
31. “The reality was my life wasn’t miserable because I was curvy; I was miserable because I thought I’d be happier if I were thinner.” — Brittany Gibbons
32. “The most powerful thing anyone can say to us is what we say to ourselves.” — Christine D’Ercole
33. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” — Sophia Loren
34. “Let’s get real about the ideal. It sucks. It doesn’t represent us, and it doesn’t even try to. It refuses to acknowledge that people of all sizes, shapes, ages, skin colors, genders and abilities exist and are worthy of being seen, heard, and valued.” — Megan Jayne Crabbe
35. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me, and I chose to love myself; then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” — Queen Latifah
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36. “You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.” — Lupita Nyong’o
37. “Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself ‘I love you,’ if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change your mind.” — Ashley Graham
38. “Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’” — Christina Grimmie
39. “The best gift you are ever going to give someone — the permission to feel safe in their own skin.” — Hannah Brencher
40. “You are enough just as you are.” — Meghan Markle
41. “I longed to love this frame that was projected towards me. I continued staring. This was me, my body, and it was mine.” — Malebo Sephodi
42. “True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.” — Audrey Hepburn
43. “Is “fat” really the worst thing a human being can be? Is “fat” worse than “vindictive,” “jealous,” “shallow,” “vain,” “boring,” or “cruel”? Not to me.” —J.K. Rowling
44. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” — Shannon L. Alder
45. “How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.” — Karen Quan
46. “As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.” — Charlie Chaplin
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47. “I am who I am. I am proud at any size, and I love you and want you to be proud in any form you may take as well.” — Lady Gaga
48. “By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!” — Steve Maraboli
49. “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.”
50. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” — Oscar Wilde
51. “I realize everybody wants what they don’t have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful that what’s on the outside.” — Selena Gomez
52. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.” — Laverne Cox
53. “My heart. My Body. For they are soft. I’m so done being sorry for my softness. Instead, I’ve grown quite fond of it.” — Sarah Nicole
54. “May you choose yourself, always!” — Malebo Sephodi
55. “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone
56. “Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow.” — Kim Guerra
57. “That game of comparison you play will strip you of the marvel in your story.” — Ariella Estoria
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58. “I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.” — Anna Quindlen
59. “A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” — Naomi Wolf
60. “We all have insecurities, but you have to know you are beautiful.” — Nicki Minaj
61. “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” — Jamie Lee Curtis
62. “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” —A.A. Milne
63. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
64. “To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” — Simone de Beauvoir
65. “I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.” — Kesha
66. “I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good.” —Andie MacDowell
67. “One day I decided that I was beautiful and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.” — Gabourey Sidibe
68. “Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.” — Suzy Kassem
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69. “Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” — Don Miguel Ruiz
70. “You should be able to post what you want, without anybody making you feel like your self value is from an instagram post.” — Selena Gomez
71. “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
72. “Dear Body, you were never a problem. There is nothing wrong with your size… you’re good enough already.”
73. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” — Robert Morely
74. “Find a group of people who challenge + inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, + it will change your life.” — Amy Poehler
75. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” — Deborah Day
76. “My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.” — Serena Williams
77. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” — Rupi Kaur
78. “Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” — Golda Poretsky
79. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” — Maryam Hasnaa
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80. “I am a big girl. A voluptuous, curvy, dress-wearing, lesbian. I love my body; it’s the only one I’ll ever have. I am allowed to look sexy, feel sexy, and be in love. I am worthy of all of those things. And so are you.” — Mary Lambert
81. “You all can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it’s MY body. I love it and I’m comfortable in my own skin.” — Simone Biles
82. “If you don’t see your worth, you will always choose people who don’t see it either. When your self esteem rises, your life follows.” — Mandy Hale
83. “All love begins with the love within.” — Vironika Tugaleva
84. “I say I love myself, and they’re like, ‘oh my gosh’, she’s so brave. She’s so political. For what? All I said is ‘I love myself, !’” — Lizzo
85. “Girls of all kinds can be beautiful—from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It’s not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box…think outside of the box.” — Tyra Banks
86. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” — Brené Brown
87. “I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.” — Mae West
88. “Our first and last love is self-love.” — Christian Nestell Bovee
89. “Confidence is the only key. I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone
90. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Gustav Jung
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91. “I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.” — Amy Schumer
92. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” — William Shakespeare
93. “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.” — Naomi Wolf
94. “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” — Maya Angelou
95. “It’s ok to love your body the way it is.” — Demi Lovato
96. “There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.” — Nayyirah Waheed
97. “When you discover your self-worth you will lose interest in anyone who doesn’t see it.”
98. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” — Ruth Bader Ginsberg
99. “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
100. “How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your own skin – that’s what really makes you beautiful.” — Bobbi Brown
101. “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” — Beyoncé
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102. “You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticize yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care.” —Jessica Ortner
103. “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” — Steve Maraboli
104. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” — Brené Brown
105. “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” — Unknown
106. “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed, and you are beautiful.” — Amy Bloom
107. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” — Sylvia Plath
108. “I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.” — Oprah Winfrey
109. “Your body, your rules. Do not let society fuck you up!”
110. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” — Buddha
111. “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” — Astrid Alauda
112. “To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to see yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.” — Anne Lamott
113. “Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” — Beau Taplin
I hope this collection of positive love your body quotes inspires you to ditch your self-sabotaging thoughts and beliefs.
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