Lucille Ball Quotes

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.

I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

I'm always moving forward.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Even when things are going well, there are always aspects that can be improved.

We must believe we can score in every moment - at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the game.

Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that's about it, honestly.

If you can't do something today, it will happen tomorrow or day after. If you are physically healthy and keep trying to achieve your goals, you will achieve what you want sooner or later.

You learn from the bad games and the bad tours. And, when things are going well, you think about that and you make the most of it. You don't get lazy; you don't rest on your laurels.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

There's always a way. Where there's a will there is a way. You have to believe.