Christine Lagarde Quotes

It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.

What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.'

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

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.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

There's always something bigger than you.

You can get too involved with all the wee things in life, but the most important thing is you're alive and well.

Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

it's so easy to get lost inside a problem that seems so big at the time it's like a river a that's so wide it swallows you whole while your sittin round thinkin 'bout what you can't change and worrying about all the wrong things times flying by moving so fast you better use it all cause you can't get it back sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand and what you've been out there searching for forever is in your hands ooooo when you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

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