Self-care is an important tool to help you live a more positive lifestyle. Self-care is taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy and well so you can do your job, help and care for others, and achieve all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day.
Self-care entails making time for activities that improve your overall quality of life and your physical and mental health. When it comes to your mental health, self-care can help you manage stress, reduce illness, improve your concentration, increase happiness in your day-to-day life, and increase your energy.
Right now, self-care is more important than ever. Self-care requires checking in with yourself and asking yourself how you’re doing and what your body’s asking for. Self-care can be as simple as going outside and enjoying nature or reading some of our motivational quotations.
To encourage you to think positively and understand why it’s crucial to take that extra time, we’ve put together a compilation of our favourite self-care quotes. These motivational quotes can encourage you to never give up if you need more reasons to take some time for yourself.
These motivational quotes can help you approach each day with a positive attitude and remember not to feel terrible if you need more alone time.
As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.
Akiroq Brost
Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.
Akiroq Brost
A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
Andrew Matthews
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
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
I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre Lorde
Caring for myself is not self-indulgent; caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre Lorde
Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.
Beth Behrs
We are often so eager to support others, while our culture and even the conditions of our practices make it difficult to imagine or seek support for ourselves. We aren’t meant to carry suffering alone.
Bonnie Badenoch
There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and it’s easy to believe that we must exhale all the time, without ever inhaling. But the inhale is absolutely essential if you want to continue to exhale.
Brené Brown
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
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.
Cecilia Tran
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles Bukwoski
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
… 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
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
Dan Pearce
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
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
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
Deepak Chopra
It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.
Diane Von Furstenberg
We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care.
Dr. Sara Gottfried
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum
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
One person’s self-care isn’t necessarily another’s – there is going to be a lot of individuality.
Gail Saltz, M.D.
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.
Jackie Viramontez
The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.
Jane Fonda
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
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
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 judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMillen
Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first.’ It means ‘me, too.
L.R. Knost
Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
Louisa May Alcott
Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.
Mandy Hale
If we don’t take care of ourselves, if we don’t put on the oxygen mask first, we don’t have the capacity to help those people we care so much about.
Megan McCormick
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
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
Learning self-care is like building your own lifeboat, plank by plank. Once you’ve got your boat, you’ll still be rocked by the waves of life, but you’ll have a feeling of safety, and stability that means you can pick other people up on your way.
Nadia Narain
Acknowledge, accept, and honour that you deserve your own deepest compassion and love.
Nanette Mathews
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
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
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
I believe that self-care is a daily practice that should involve your interests, needs and preferences. And it should have room to evolve with you over time.
Portia Jackson-Preston
Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana
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
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.
Sanaya Roman
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.
Tyra Banks
Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.
Vironika Tugaleva
If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.
Wayne Dyer
