Dr. Seuss is one of the most popular children’s authors. His books are known for their playful use of language and imaginative stories. Many of his quotes have become popular sayings that adults still use today. Here are some of our favorite Dr. Seuss quotes:
Inspirational Dr. Seuss Quotes
- Today you are You; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You
- You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!
- Nothing will get better unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. It’s not.
- Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
- If things start happening, don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along, and you’ll start happening too.
- Just tell yourself, duckie. You’re really quite lucky!
- I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
- Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
- We are all a little weird, and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours. We join up with them, fall into mutual weirdness, and call it love.
- It’s a troublesome world. All the people in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.
Uplifting Dr. Seuss Quotes
- From there to here and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
- Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.
- Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!
- You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
- Only you can control your future.
- If we do not choose, we will end up with none.
- You have to be odd to be number one.
- Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
- Oh, the things you can find. If you stay caught up!
- In the places I go, there are things that I see that I could never spell if I stopped with the Z.
- You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
- Oh, the things you can think!
- You’ll be on your way up! You’ll see incredible sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
- With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
- Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Wise Dr. Seuss Quotes
- You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!
- Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
- Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person. No matter how small.
- On and on, you will hike. And I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems, whatever they are.
- So, open your mouth, lad! Every voice counts!
- You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant?
- Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
- You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.
- Today you are you; that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you.
- A person’s a person, no matter how small.
- Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
- To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world.
