Should We Love Ourselves More Than Others Or The Opposite?

I think we need to love others as we love ourselves.  We shouldn't love ourselves more than others--that makes us selfish and uncaring.  I think, though, that it's human nature to put yourself first.  We do need to take care of ourselves before we can start to take care of others, but if we put equal emphasis on both, we can really improve the world. 

To me it's not a matter of loving others more than yourself or vice versa. To me it's about loving yourself enough to be able to care for yourself and have enough sense to be able to prevent others from hurting you. In this world ultimately it is only us for ourselves: We were born alone and we will die alone.
More typically in girls, I see that girls from broken homes that end up hating themselves will try finding a guy to love them and convince themselves that they are worthy of love. Of course, these guys can't do that for them, we need to love ourselves unconditionally before anything else. If we don't love ourselves first then going out into the world we will be down for anything because we won't feel worth setting boundaries and morals for ourselves. People will be able to take advantage of us because we won't be able to see who is for us or against us.

It is impossible to love others if you don't love yourself first. To love yourself you accept who you are, you care about who you are and what others think about you. You put your best foot forward and present yourself in a positive manner. This makes it possible for you to then extend love to others as well as receive love from others.

The law of nature says self first,You must love yourself in order to know what love is and how to love someone else. Only God should be the first thing in your life and then self and all other persons and things come in the order you select. Peace

Loving ourselves is as important as loving others. Loving ourselves builds a sort of self confidence

I think in order for a person to love someone else they need to first love them-self.

To love yourself is to accept who you are. One must find true merit within themselves before they can bestow love among others.

Jesus said we are to love our neighbor, as ourselves. We have to Love ourselves then, in order to love others.

Loving others can be hard at times and so can loving ourselves. We should love our neighbor as ourselves equally.

You have to love yourself before you can truly love someone else. If you can't love yourself, you have a tendency to make yourself miserable, which is what you do to the person you profess to love, and oddly enough you don't see that if you don't love yourself.

Of course. If you can't love yourself you can't love another. It's that simple.

I think everyone should love everyone. I do. I don't generally hold a grudge or tell people off unless I'm so mad that I got to go off. You should always love yourself, be comfortable with yourself. But if you see someone who needs more love or attention,and you don't need it at the moment, share the love. I know it sounds so 70s but its true. Everyone will look up to you more.

Jesus gave us a new command,

Of course if you love yourself, you will better love others

Charming if you cannot love yourself first you are not capable of loving another more. Just my opinion of course.

I think we should love others as ourselves like Jesus says in scripture.  However, I do think it is hard for someone who has never been shown love to be able to give love.

Everything starts from loving yourself because it would definitely be hard for you to love another person when you don't love yourself.people should also start by respecting themselves then they can now take it forward by respecting others.someone should put his/her everything first before another person

What exactly are you talking about? I mean, what do you mean when you say "love"? Are you asking whether a person should be more concerned with someone else's needs, feelings and concerns than their own? If so, are we talking about family, a friend, a lover, or what? Or, if not, and we are talking about romantic love, are you asking if it is beneficial or detrimental for one person to love the other more or less than they are loved? Or, are you asking if people believe that it is wrong or right for loving another person less than themselves?

How can you love someone else if you do not love yourself? Love yourself more.

Love yourself first. If you will not have concern for yourself, who else will?  Loving oneself does not mean being selfish.  It is not the same as being egoistic.  Not the same as being egotistical.  It just means having a healthy self esteem.  Whether we should love our self more than others, it depends on who are the others you are referring to. If you are referring to family, it means sacrificing time, money and effort for them every now and then.  However, it still means loving oneself first. I think that if you love yourself first, you will not even be concerned who you will love more.  Most likely, you will love yourself more than others. Isn't that what self preservation is also about.  That's just my opinion.