156 Inspiring Quotes by Dr. Seuss

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

You can't dribble on bow ties.

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.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

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.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

When you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.

Kid, you'll move mountains.

It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.

The moon was out and I saw some sheep.
I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,
They walked all night from near to far.
I would never walk, I would take a car.

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.

It is fun to have fun.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

You're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

There are so many things you can learn about, but you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

I don't like audiences, I prefer my mistakes in private.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 4 percent guaranteed.).

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

It doesn't matter what it is.What matters is what it will become.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are 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.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

I am not a consecutive writer.

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.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Take every chance. Drop every fear.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency.

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!

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.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go!

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more -- We've taught you how to think.

You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Fun is good.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

It's opener there in the wide open air.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

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!

People are weird. When we find someone with a weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

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.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

How did it get so late so soon?

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

Oh, the places you will go.

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke -- my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

What do you mean you're leaving? You're a baby sitter. Baby sitters don't leave, they sit. Baby leavers leave.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Adults are just outdated children.

Shorth is better than length.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.