Top 100 Take Life Seriously Quotes
#3. It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.
Eugene H. Peterson
#4. As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.
RuPaul
#5. Don't take life seriously, you never make it out alive anyways
A. Vaidyanathan
#7. Take life seriously but none of the people in it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask.
"No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.
Katie Kacvinsky
#9. While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
George Hamilton
#10. Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
Kevin Smith
#11. You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
Tristan Tzara
#12. By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
#13. Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#14. I don't take life seriously but I see life as an opportunity.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
Bernie Glassman
#16. My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
Sonu Nigam
#17. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.
William T. Vollmann
#18. I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
Kelly Ayotte
#19. We take life so seriously. But at the end, the billionaire gets buried next to the street sweeper.
Robin S. Sharma
#20. Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
Shelley Duvall
#21. Don't take yourself too seriously.
Trina
#22. You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.
Frederick Lenz
#23. I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.
Rachel Miner
#24. Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.
Robin S. Sharma
#25. One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.
Jim Morrison
#26. You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#27. It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
Betty White
#28. I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
Luke Ford
#29. You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.
Clint Eastwood
#30. I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.
Lee Pace
#31. My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty ... because it's the law.
Tim Kaine
#32. In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.
Murray Mexted
#33. I take very few people seriously, and I'm not one of them.
Cian Beirdd
#34. ..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas
Seumas Gallacher
#35. To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously.
Meghan Daum
#36. Privilege encased them, surrounded them like armor. In the cast of their faces was the assumption that they would never have to take anything very seriously. For the first time in my life I saw the truth in the old proposition that the rich were better-looking.
Peter Straub
#37. Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca The Younger
#38. Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.
Douglas Pagels
#39. Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#40. One of the key things is learning which bits of life you don't need to take seriously. Usually far more than you expect.
Penny Grubb
#41. ...I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...
Indigo Girls
#42. Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
Babe Ruth
#43. Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.
Steve Aoki
#44. We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.
David Suzuki
#45. It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously.
Geri Halliwell
#46. In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl ... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.
Nicole Scherzinger
#47. Life is about having an attitude of gratitude. And grabitude. Seriously, you've got to take stuff. What, do you think someone's just going to hand you what you want?
Jarod Kintz
#48. Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.
Eraldo Banovac
#49. life is what you make of it. If you take it too seriously you just end up injuring your own self.
J.D. Hollyfield
#50. We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.
John Arlott
#51. I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.
John Corbett
#52. Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
Deborah Smith
#53. We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
Felicity Kendal
#54. It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.
Debra Messing
#55. I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
Larisa Oleynik
#56. Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
Rajneesh
#57. I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
Joan Cusack
#58. Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!
Lisa Vanderpump
#59. I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle.
Sue Townsend
#60. People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
Whitfield Diffie
#61. Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can ... with all that you have ... in the place that you are ... right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously.
Les Brown
#62. I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
Paul Prudhomme
#63. If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
Victoria Justice
#64. I don't take life so seriously ... I can just play with life.
Eric Cantona
#66. Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
Mick Jagger
#67. One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
Kevin Spacey
#68. You can't take anything in life WAY too seriously ... Even the serious stuff!
Tanya Masse
#69. People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
Tom Robbins
#70. So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
Dan B. Allender
#71. You can take me to the shittiest restaurant or bar and I'll seriously be happy if I can sit at a booth. I don't even have to drink. Sitting is one of life's most underrated pleasures.
Karina Halle
#72. I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.
Mac DeMarco
#73. And it's special meaning for me was this: It is proof that sometime back when my father was a young, young man, he must have had a moment or two when he felt that he might have reason to take himself and his life seriously.
Kurt Vonnegut
#74. Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately.
Dave Eggers
#75. To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
Arthur Schnitzler
#77. I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.
Louis Tomlinson
#78. Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
William John Locke
#79. Life is supposed to be fun! When you're having fun, you feel great and you receive great things! Having fun brings the life you want, and taking things too seriously brings a life you have to take seriously.
Rhonda Byrne
#80. 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.
Sydney Wayser
#81. When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler.
Willie Aames
#82. Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#83. Don't take life so seriously. Have fun. Enjoy your time on this planet.
Haley Pullos
#84. Have fun. I don't kid myself. Life is very fragile, and success doesn't change that. If anything, success makes it more fragile. Anything can change, without warning, and that's why I try not to take any of what's happened too seriously.
Donald Trump
#85. Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.
Jill Shalvis
#86. Don't take life too seriously! Learn to enjoy yourself and be grateful for all you have.
Dia Frampton
#87. My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary
#88. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them. *1937
Samuel Beckett
#89. I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
Martha Stewart
#90. Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23
Jurgen Moltmann
#91. It doesn't really matter in the end. Most people I talk to don't take writing seriously. If I tell them I'm an aspiring author, they get that "yeah right" look on their face, which is usually followed by "good luck with that.
Karina Halle
#92. And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. Clockwork Vendetta is not steampunk; it is steamfun. I can't take myself so seriously as to write something truly punk in the true sense of the word.
Gabbo De La Parra
#94. It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.
Michelle Monaghan
#95. Do you take anything seriously?"
"Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious.
Leigh Bardugo
#96. If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this ...
Don't take life WAY too seriously.
Tanya Masse
#97. I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.
Bruno Mars
#98. Approach the world with sympathy and compassion, just don't take any of it very seriously.
Kate Baggott
#99. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
Simi Sunny
#100. The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy.
Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it.
Some of us break and throw it.
Either we give extreme importance, either not enough.
Better to stay far from extremes.
Shams Tabrizi
