143 Body Positivity quotes

Feel good about your body.

All of you is a burst of beauty.

You are real, and that’s perfect.

You are only as flawless as you think you are.

To love yourself is the greatest revolution.

When you take care of your body, it will also care for you

You are a flawless work of art.

Be careful because your body hears all that your mind says.

Once you discover your self-worth, you will lose interest in those who don’t see it.

You don’t need anyone’s approval to be you.

Forget the rules and start living and loving yourself.

The problem isn’t your body. It’s their narrowmindedness.

Love yourself first coz only you can love yourself best.

You need to accept yourself because that’s true beauty. You don’t need other people’s approval to accept yourself.

Stop playing that comparison game because it will strip the beauty of your own story.

If you want to know the real representation of true beauty, it is confidence – being unafraid to be yourself.

The true essence of beauty is a woman who is unafraid and unapologetic to be comfortable in her imperfection. That is a rare beauty.

Step away from the mirror now and then because self-esteem won’t come from body parts. Take a moment to appreciate the reflection in the eyes of those who admire and love you.

We learn to hate our bodies, which means we can also unlearn and start loving our bodies again.

Having tummy rolls, acne, and chaffing thighs doesn’t need we need fixing.

Embrace Speaking to your body lovingly as it’s your home – the only one that you’ve got – it deserves respect from you.

You should take your time and your talent figuring how you should contribute to this world instead of wondering whether your butt fits in that in your jeans.

Life is too beautiful and away more complex than a number on a scale.

When you learn to love yourself totally for who you are and not only by your looks is when you will find genuine happiness.

It is OK to be to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.

Don’t throw away all your joy because of a past idea about yourself that isn’t true anymore.

Your whole life shows on your face therefore, you should be proud of it.

Stop trying to fix your body because it was never broken.

All bodies are swimsuit bodies.

Your words are so powerful that every time you tell yourself, ‘I love you,’ or give yourself a word of validation, it changes your mind.

Lines are proof that we change and grow. They are the etchings from your laughter, smiles, and frowns you learned from. Eleanor Gordon-Smith.

The biggest words anyone can say to us are the ones we say to ourselves.

The most important rule of beauty is. ‘who cares?’ - Tina Fey

You should not waste much of your time obsessing about how much you weigh. That is a very boring, mind-numbing, idiotic, and self-destructive diversion from the pleasure of living.

You can’t criticize yourself thin, hate yourself happy, or shame yourself worthy. If you want actual change, start with self-care and self-love.

Accept each woman’s body on its own terms.

What makes you truly beautiful is being comfortable and feeling confident in your own skin.

You should not spend the entire day cursing, obsessing, and perfecting because it is not all you offer the world. Your body is not your art, but it is only your paintbrush.

Weight loss will not make you happy or peaceful. Because being slim will not address the emptiness with no weight, shape, or name. Even a popular and successful diet will be a failure if in the same body is the same sinking heart.

Only you can define true beauty, not society.

Every woman has the part of her body she doesn’t like, but I’ve accepted mine and stopped complaining because I no longer want to critique nature’s outstanding work. My job is to let the light shine out of the masterpiece.

How other people perceive you has nothing to do with you. All that matters is how you see yourself.

There is no better work of art than the human body.

To lose confidence in your body is to lose confidence in yourself.

Even the popular models you see in the magazines wish they could look like their own image. - Cheri K. Erdman

One of the greatest accomplishments today is being yourself in a world that is constantly pushing you to be something else.

All of you is holy, so never apologize for your sacred body.

If you want to really feel good about yourself, focus on the inside. I feel attractive when I’m doing good, like helping other people.

You can’t hate yourself into a better version that you can love.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with the way you look.

Real beauty is when a woman is in harmony with herself.

The more I like myself, the less I want to pretend to be like others.

Your body should be treated like an instrument, not an ornament.

Being healthy means feeling good about my choices and keeping fit physically and mentally. I’m always reminding myself that it’s not about my thighs, but my commitment and happiness level.

No one is perfect, and I don’t believe in perfection. However, I believe in saying, ‘This is who I am, imperfect, and proud of that.'

By saying, ‘I am healthy,’ I am expressing gratitude in that statement. I am grateful for my strength and things I can achieve with my body. It is an affirmation that I am healthy and I accept my body today changing nothing.

All these years you have criticized yourself have brought nothing positive. Now try giving yourself approval and see what happens.

Allowing someone to feel like they are safe in their own skin is the best gift you can give to that person.

If you stop banging your head against the wall of caging, fearing, and shaming, you will find out that you are not a mistake. – Geneen Roth

There is nothing as fruitless and boring as a woman lamenting that her stomach is round.

Getting on a scale and measuring the waistline cannot be the only thing that determines a healthy woman. We need to focus on what truly matters – like how we feel and how we view ourselves.

Get away from the mean girls and say goodbye to feeling bad about your looks. Stop colluding with the culture that is making many women feel physically inadequate. Say goodbye to your inner critic and be kinder to yourself and others.

I definitely have body issues, and so does everyone else. When you realize everyone does that, then you can start living the way you are.

Magic happens when you believe in yourself because self-confidence is a superpower.

Do not exist to impress but to be happy.

There is power in choosing to be real rather than to be perfect.

Why be perfect when you can be yourself?

A flower does not spend its time competing with other flowers next to it. It just blooms.

Confidence is not being happy because they like you. It is being OK even if they don’t.

To truly love you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.

You are an unlimited edition.

Your relationship with yourself will always set the tone for every other relationship you have.

Always take care of yourself because you can’t pour from an empty cup.

When you learn to control your mind, you will also be able to control your body.

Loving yourself just as you are is giving yourself heaven. Don’t wait till you die, because to wait is to die now. If you love, you live now.

Choosing healthy over skinny is choosing self-love over self-judgment.

Strong is beautiful.

I wish my younger self knew that she was more than a body. Besides the weight loss and flat abs, she had more to offer the world. So much more.

To be beautiful means being yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by anybody other than you.

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women of all shades, all styles, and inside of us, everything blooms.

To be truly happy with ourselves, we must make body acceptance or self-love unconditional because our bodies are constantly changing and will never be exactly as they were. If we base our self-worth on our ever-changing bodies, we will always be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame.

My body is my vessel. It is not yours to discuss and critique. My body is not yours for consumption, it is an archive of experiences. A weapon that has experienced battles only I understand. A library of love, struggle, mystery, pain, and victory. You cannot place a value on my body, but on my being because your eyes cannot define all it has endured.

Stand up and tell them, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me, who I am, or my shape. You’re the one with the problem.'

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame.

Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.

Just because we have acne, tummy rolls, and chafing thighs doesn’t mean we need fixed. Period.

Remember that our bodies are always changing, and that’s okay. What’s really unhealthy is trying to fit into an unrealistic norm of what is seen as perfect.

Having a flat stomach doesn’t make you more worthy, it won’t make you happier, or more successful. You don’t need a toned stomach to wear a bikini.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Don’t let your mind bully your body.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticize yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care.

You don’t need an excuse to feel good about yourself.

Shine a great light on your most amazing qualities. We tend to focus on the negative aspects of us and forget all the greatness that we have within.

Self-care is how you take your power back.

Worthiness does not have prerequisites.

We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.

Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.

Your body is your home, your vessel in life. It needs to be respected and loved.

And I said to my body, softly, “I want to be your friend. It took a long breath and replied, “I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

You are imperfect, permanently, and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.

Don’t change your body to get respect from society. Instead let’s change society to respect our bodies.

Life is so much more beautiful than a number on a scale.

I’ve learned to appreciate my body, because it’s taken me all the way here and will take me to the end.

I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll.

You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.

Take your time and your talent and figure out what you have to contribute to this world, and get over what the hell your butt looks like in those jeans!

Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

My weight is what it is. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. It’s about being content.

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are.

I say I love myself, and they’re like, ‘oh my gosh,’ she’s so brave. She’s so political. For what? All I said is, ‘I love myself, bitch!’

I’m not going to apologize for my size. I’m not wrong for having the body that I do. I still deserve to dress cool.

My biggest insecurity was my lanky body! People always commented on it. But it’s who I am- and when I dance, I feel beautiful.

I feel beautiful when I’m at peace with myself.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I am more than my measurements… My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.

Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

I’m proud of my body. I’m finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else’s standards.

Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself ‘I love you,’ if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change your mind.

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin—that’s what really makes you beautiful.

I think, in a way, we’ve forgotten what a regular body looks like. There are people out there who are struggling, and I’m struggling, and it’s okay to come to terms with realizing it’s going to be a bit of a journey.

I love every cell of my body.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

My thighs will always touch when I walk, but I’m ok with that.

​I have a belly. And I have cellulite. And I still deserve love.

I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.

My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about how my body is shaped.

I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it’s all about embracing yourself and your body.

You define beauty for yourself. Society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.