Lucille Ball Quotes

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

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.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

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

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

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

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

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.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

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

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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.

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.

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

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

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

The more things you do, the more you can do.