101 Dr Seuss Quotes Best Dr Seuss Quotes

The prolific children’s book author was born on March 2, 1904, and his mark on kids’ literature was so indelible, the National Education Association created National Read Across America Day in honor of the day. Dr. Seuss passed away in 1991 at age 87, but new generations of children still learn to read—and learn to flex their imaginations—with his unforgettable characters and rhymes to this day. That’s why we’re marking his life with some of Dr. Seuss’ most inspiring quotes—many of which work well as birthday wishes! Some quotes are drawn from his books and others from interviews, but they’re all equally worth remembering. From the best famous Dr. Seuss quotations to Dr. Seuss quotes that encourage you to embrace your individuality to funny Doctor Seuss quotes and sayings that’ll make you feel like a kid again, these best Dr. Seuss quotes about life are guaranteed to make your day just a little bit brighter. You’ll be familiar with some of these famous Dr. Seuss quotations, while others may be entirely new to you. But one thing’s for sure: This big list of the 101 best Dr. Seuss quotes and sayings has something just right for every occasion.

101 Dr. Seuss Quotes

1. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” — Dr. Seuss
2. “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss
3. “Simple it’s not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.” – Dr. Seuss
4. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” – Dr. Seuss
5. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” — Dr. Seuss
6. “You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!” – Dr. Seuss
7. “If we do not choose, we will end up with none.” — Dr. Seuss
8. “They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!” – Dr. Seuss
9. “I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.” ― Dr. Seuss
10. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!” — Dr. Seuss
11. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” ― Dr. Seuss
12. “If you’d never been born, then you might be an Isn’t! An Isn’t has no fun at all. No, he didn’t!” – Dr. Seuss
13. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” ― Dr. Seuss
14. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” — Dr. Seuss
15. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
16. “Only you can control your future.” — Dr. Seuss
17. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” — Dr. Seuss
18. “With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.” – Dr. Seuss
19. “You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” — Dr. Seuss
20. “You have to be odd to be number one.” — Dr. Seuss
21. “One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish!” ― Dr. Seuss
22. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!” — Dr. Seuss
23. “It is better to know how to learn than to know.” — Dr. Seuss 24. “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 and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” — Dr. Seuss
24. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” – Dr. Seuss
25. “I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.” ― Dr. Seuss
26. “ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!” ― Dr. Seuss
27. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” – Dr. Seuss
28. “I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you.” ― Dr. Seuss
29. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss
30. “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!” — Dr. Seuss
31. “You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss
32. “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” — Dr. Seuss
33. “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living—it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” — Dr. Seuss
34. “You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” — Dr. Seuss
35. “Reading can take you places you have never been before.” — Dr. Seuss
36. “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”― Dr. Seuss
37. “It’s opener there in the wide open air.” — Dr. Seuss
38. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” — Dr. Seuss
39. “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” – Dr. Seuss
40. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.” — Dr. Seuss
41. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.” — Dr. Seuss
42. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” — Dr. Seuss
43. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.” — Dr. Seuss
44. “I don’t care how you go. Just get.” — Dr. Seuss
45. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.” — Dr. Seuss
46. “For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.” ― Dr. Seuss
47. “Not here, not there, not anywhere!” ― Dr. Seuss
48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss
49. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” — Dr. Seuss
50. “Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.” — Dr. Seuss
51. “My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn’t make it up!” ― Dr. Seuss 53. “Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.” ― Dr. Seuss
52. “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” — Dr. Seuss
53. “Take every chance, drop every fear.”― Dr. Seuss
54. “It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become.” — Dr. Seuss
55. “There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.” — Dr. Seuss
56. “It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.” ― Dr. Seuss
57. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky.” – Dr. Seuss
58. “So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!” — Dr. Seuss
59. ““And this mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!” ― Dr. Seuss
60. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. Seuss
61. “Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’” — Dr. Seuss
62. “Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” ― Dr. Seuss
63. “The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.” ― Dr. Seuss
64. “I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.” ― Dr. Seuss
65. “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.” — Dr. Seuss
66. “I sort of got thinking—it’s sort of a shame that scrambled eggs always taste always the same.” — Dr. Seuss
67. “Think and wonder. Wonder and think.” — Dr. Seuss
68. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” — Dr. Seuss
69. Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.” – Dr. Seuss
70. “Congratulations! Today is your day!” – Dr. Seuss
71. “Poor empty pants with nobody inside them.” ― Dr. Seuss
72. “I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.” — Dr. Seuss
73. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss
74. “I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.” – Dr. Seuss
75. “You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss
76. “Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that’s because he’s a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that’s usually to impress some girl.” ― Dr. Seuss
77. “Being crazy isn’t enough.” ― Dr. Seuss
78. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out.” — Dr. Seuss
79. “You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around ” ― Dr. Seuss 82. “And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.” ― Dr. Seuss
80. “‘Tut tut!’ said the doctor. ‘Such talk! How absurd! Your tail is just right for your kind of bird.’” — Dr. Seuss
81. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
82. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.” — Dr. Seuss
83. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.” ― Dr. Seuss
84. “How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss
85. “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.” ― Dr. Seuss
86. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” — Dr. Seuss
87. “So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.” – Dr. Seuss
88. “If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.” — Dr. Seuss
89. “He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” ― Dr. Seuss
90. “All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot.” – Dr. Seuss
91. “It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.” – Dr. Seuss
92. “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.” — Dr. Seuss
93. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.” — Dr. Seuss
94. “Shorth is better than length.” ― Dr. Seuss
95. “Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon.” — Dr. Seuss
96. “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.” ― Dr. Seuss
97. “You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.” – Dr. Seuss
98. “Everything stinks until it’s finished.” — Dr. Seuss
99. “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!” — Dr. Seuss
100. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” 104. Want more great quotes? Check out… 150 Life Quotes50 Thinking of You Quotes150 Good Morning Quotes100 Wedding and Marriage Quotes50 Friday Quotes100 Quotes about Change101 Anxiety Quotes (Some images above are of Dr. Seuss’s planning sketches from a few of his beloved books. For more, check out Seussville.com.)