T. D. Jakes Quotes

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Self-love is a busy prompter.

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

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

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

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

When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.

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.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

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

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

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.

Self-love knows no impediment.

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

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.

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.