Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Self-love is a busy prompter.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

If I don't love myself, I won't survive.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.