Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) was an American children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker.
He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.
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| Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.―Dr. Seuss |
Here is A selection of some of Dr. Seuss most famous quotes. Inspirational and motivational sayings from Dr. Seuss. Wise words by Dr. Seuss.
Top 103 wise and inspiring quotes by Dr. Seuss
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Only you can control your future.
If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!
Being crazy isn't enough.
Everything stinks till it's finished.
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| You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go―Dr. Seuss |
Be awesome! Be a book nut!
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
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!
Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.
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.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
A person's a person, no matter how small.
My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!
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| Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.―Dr. Seuss |
You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
How did it get so late so soon?
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
You have to be odd to be number one.
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
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.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
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.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
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| Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!―Dr. Seuss |
Adults are obsolete children.
I am not a consecutive writer.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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.
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.
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.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
Think and wonder, wonder and think.
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.
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| The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.―Dr. Seuss |
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.
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.
How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.
Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! 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.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
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| I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.―Dr. Seuss |
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
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.
There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.
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.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping. When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
You are you that is truer than true.
Poor empty pants. With nobody inside them.
You have to be a speedy reader because there's so so much to read.
If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.
Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?
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| You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.―Dr. Seuss |
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory.
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.
When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.
Oh, the thinks you can think!
Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!
It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
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.
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!
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