body positivity quotes

47 quotes

My fat never made me less money.

Dolly Parton

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Dolly Parton

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Billy Graham

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Bertrand Russell

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Kevin Hart

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

The Weeknd

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Maya Angelou

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Ray Bradbury

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Ariana Grande

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Beyonce Knowles

I’m not a centerfold.

Frank Ocean

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Sunil Chhetri

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Steven Wright

I love ripped jeans! They are flattering. I’m very petite, so I think they make my butt look lovely.

Ariana Grande

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Dolly Parton

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Michelle Obama

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

No one wants to see curvy women.

Karl Lagerfeld

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

Rihanna

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.

Erma Bombeck

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Aurora

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

Anthony Bourdain

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Karl Lagerfeld

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Angelina Jolie

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

Dr. Seuss

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Rihanna

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Rihanna

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Margaret Atwood

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Angelina Jolie

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

George Orwell

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Clint Eastwood

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

Audrey Hepburn

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

Marilyn Monroe

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any.

Marilyn Monroe

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus

I want the world to see my body.

Marilyn Monroe

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Marilyn Monroe

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

Billie Eilish

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Brene Brown

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Vivienne Westwood

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Brene Brown

Some people would like me to be round again.

Karl Lagerfeld