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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Amity Gaige

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

Amy Landecker

I've grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I'm still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that's a new thing for me and I'm loving it.

Amybeth McNulty

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.

Angie Stone

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

Ashley Nell Tipton

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

bell hooks

My book, 'The Total Me-Tox,' is about self-care and self-love and how they lead to success and empowerment. My goal is to encourage women to be their best selves in a warm, friendly way. Think human, not superhuman.

Beth Behrs

Loving our hair and accepting others' is a simple but powerful way to encourage self-love and bring people together while celebrating our uniqueness.

Carolyn Aronson

The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

Cesare Beccaria

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.

Delilah

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

Devin Townsend

I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them... It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.

Elizabeth Smart

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Ellen G. White

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.

Elvis Mitchell

I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.

Emily Levine

Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.

Fatema Mernissi

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld