Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

Only if you love yourself, only if you're happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.

I just think girls need to value themselves much more than they do.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

You can't value others until you value yourself.

As I have said many times - no 1 loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can't really love yourself, you can't love anything you do!

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

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

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.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

But respect yourself most of all.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

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

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

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'