Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

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

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

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

I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.