Capable Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Self-denial is the first quality of love”

— Sunday Adelaja

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

— Marianne Williamson

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

— Anonymous

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite…

— Rollo May

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

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…

— Samuel Johnson

There's no love worth more than self loving.

— Zorromastigophora

“Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.”

— Sharon Salzberg

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

— Federico Fellini

“The notion of self-love or self-esteem is in itself either ridiculous or repellent. No one ascribes his good character or successes in life to…

— Theodore Dalrymple