Explore 'self-care'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

Maya Angelou

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Hasdai ibn Shaprut

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Henry Rollins

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It’s women’s version of the Golden Rule.

Gloria Steinem

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Alan Cohen

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

David Guetta

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

Jonathan Kellerman

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

Seneca the Elder

You can’t really help people until you’ve helped yourself first.

Juno Temple

I find that if I’ve taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

Kandyse McClure

Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.

Bryant H. McGill

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

If I don’t take care of myself, if I don’t feel good about myself, how can I help others?

Richard Simmons

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

Jenny Holzer

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

Eda LeShan

Self-care isn’t selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can’t serve from an empty vessel.

Eleanor Brown

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