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Lucille Ball

  • I think knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Eleanor Harris, The Real Story of Lucille Ball ()
  • ... remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, Lucy: The Bittersweet Life of Lucille Ball ()
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, sleep sufficiently, work industriously, worship faithfully — and then lie about your age.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Bob Chieger, Was It Good for You, Too? ()
  • There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • with Betty Hannah Hoffman, Love, Lucy ()
  • I cured myself of my shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me nearly as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody really gave a damn.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • with Betty Hannah Hoffman, Love, Lucy ()
  • I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • with Betty Hannah Hoffman, Love, Lucy ()
  • 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.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Ronald Warren Deutsch, ed., Inspirational Hollywood ()
  • I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Ronald Warren Deutsch, ed., Inspirational Hollywood ()
  • 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.

    • Lucille Ball,
    • in Ronald Warren Deutsch, ed., Inspirational Hollywood ()
  • It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

    • Lucille Ball
  • Divorce is defeat.

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

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

    • Lucille Ball
  • Ability is of little account without opportunity.

    • Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball, U.S. actor, comedian, studio executive

(1911 - 1989)

Full name: Lucille Désirée Ball Arnaz Morton.