Lucille Ball Quotes

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

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.

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

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

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.

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

I’ve seen ‘Mork & Mindy’ a couple times. Robin Williams amazes me. And I love Gary Coleman. He puts me away. He puts everybody away.

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

You spell Bob Hope C-L-A-S-S.

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