Lucille Ball

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and just not think about your age.
– Lucille Ball

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

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

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.
– Lucille Ball

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

Life’s a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
– Lucille Ball

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

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

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.
– Lucille Ball

It’s a hell of a start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
– Lucille Ball

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
– Lucille Ball

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
– Lucille Ball

People either have comedy or they don’t. You can’t teach it to them.
– Lucille Ball

I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
– Lucille Ball

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
– Lucille Ball

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in
so many lives, in so many ways.
– Lucille Ball

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact,
that’s good taste.
– Lucille Ball

The best time is when you’re working and you’re happy.
– Lucille Ball

I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really
gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
– Lucille Ball

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
– Lucille Ball

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