Lucille Ball Quotes

I believe that we’re as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Luck? Luck is hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.

A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He’d been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

I’m not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don’t grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don’t anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

I don’t know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me… anecdotes. But never a joke.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.