Jerry Lewis Quotes

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

We can still do good for others and do good for ourselves. I would wither and die, truthfully. I need to be somewhere where the light's on me.

When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

I have no expectations. I just want to better myself.

I can live with myself.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what's best for you.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

Since I'm a highly self-critical person, I try to become better every day. I don't see the point of competing with anyone.

It's not healthy to ever put someone first before yourself.

I've had enough of worrying about everybody else. Now I'm taking care of me.

I just need to give the best of myself and work on myself.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.