Cornel West Quotes

You can't love other people until you love yourself.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

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

You can only experience love if you have self love.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

To love others you must first love yourself.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.

Definitely love yourself.

I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.

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.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

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.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter