Lucy Larcom Quotes

I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

It's a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.