Seriously Quotes

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Small, Cannot

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Joke, Taking, Changing

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Stupidity

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Important, Talk

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Lloyd Banks

Loyalty, Important, Honor

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem

Long, Keep, Making

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Idea, Shoulders

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob Dylan

Yourself, Tomorrow, Job

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Colin Powell

Work, Yourself, Hard

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

Life, Trying, Idea

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama

Whole, Point, Spending

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

Start, Themselves, Literary

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Aleister Crowley

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

Life, Today, Game

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Trouble, Taking

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Taken, Heard, Include

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Venus Williams

Job, Big, Sister

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Taking, Danger

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Faith, Work, Science

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

Future, School, Child

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Samuel Butler

Nothing, Serious, Taken

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

Politics, Spiritual, Excellent

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.
David Bowie

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler

Life, Death, Taken

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Vaclav Havel

Laugh, Looking, Anyone

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.
Eva Green

Living, Another, Dreamer

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Yourself, Mistakes, Human

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