Self Care Quotes – Take Care Of Yourself
Self-care and taking care of our mental health are things we often overlook and don’t make time for.
When you neglect yourself, your body, health, and mental well-being, it can take a toll, and stress and anxiety kick in.
Don’t feel guilty taking some time to relax and rejuvenate yourself.
Read my recent post for some great ideas on creating an excellent DIY self-care kit.
Taking care of yourself is so important, so I created this collection of 101 best self-care quotes I could find.
I hope these inspire you to take time out for yourself.
Inspiring Self-Care Quotes
Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.
Katie Reed
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 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
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Maya Angelou
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah
Self-care: doing the things that make you feel more like yourself
Robyn Conley Downs
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Jim Rohn
Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.
Vironika Tugaleva
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
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.
Akiroq Brost
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
Self-Care Quotes To Motivate You
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
I make it a point to practice self-care. I make an appointment with myself.
Manisha Singal
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brené Brown
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
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 Brown
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
Pema Chodron
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
Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.
Golda Poretsky
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
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you’re not saying ‘no’ to yourself.
Paulo Coehlo
Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.
Imani Shola
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
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
Choose to react to situations with faith rather than fear, with hope rather than dread.
Joyce Meyer
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.
Shel Silverstein
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
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
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?
Kerry Washington
People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
I always give myself Sundays as a spiritual base of renewal—a day when I do absolutely nothing. I sit in my jammies or take a walk, and I allow myself time to BE—capital B-E—with myself.
Oprah
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Bob Moawad
Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.
Ann Wigmore
Inspiring Self-Care Quotes – Make Time For Yourself
When we care for ourselves as our very own beloved—with naps, healthy food, clean sheets, a lovely cup of tea—we can begin to give in wildly generous ways to the world, from abundance.
Anne Lamott
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, PhD
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
You must tell yourself, “No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.
Les Brown
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
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
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.
Christine Caine
The value of self-care and self-love is often underestimated. It starts with you. You can’t give what you don’t have.
Izey Victoria Odiase
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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
Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
For those of you who struggle with guilt regarding self-care, answer this question: What greater gift can you give to those you love than your own wholeness?
Shannon Tanner
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
Jill Bolte Taylor
Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.
Imani Shola
Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.
Gudjon Bergmann
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 McMilllen
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
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
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
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other times move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury
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
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.
George Burns
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise L. Hay
It’s important to remind yourself that this is not a race. Do what you can do today. You will get to where you are going. Progress happens in layers.
Audrey Kitching
Inner peace beings the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
Pema Chodron
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
W.E.B Dubois
When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose.
Amy Leigh
Self-Care equals success.
Dixie L. Nichols
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
When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose.
Amy Leigh
Self-care sometimes is doing the things that will make your next 2 hours difficult, but your next 10 years easier.
Em.x.thoughts
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.
Garson Kanin
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
To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
Jonathan Van Ness
Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
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
If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?
Ru Paul
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
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
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It really is ok for there to be times when you stop putting everyone else first, and just do what’s best for you.
Tracey Leech
The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
Chuang Tzu
Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.
Stephanie Lahart
Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
Stacey Charter
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
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
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Lao-Tzu