Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

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

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

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

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

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?