Top 180 Dr. Seuss Quotes (2022 Update)

1. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Happiness Quotes, Moving On Quotes

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

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Love Quotes

3. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

4. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Life Quotes

5. “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

6. “When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Choices Quotes

7. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Life Quotes

8. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

9. “You have to be odd to be number one.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Quotes About Numbers

10. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Moving Quotes, Quotes About Kids

11. “Reading can take you places you have never been before.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Reading Quotes

12. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

13. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— Dr. Seuss

14. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Birthday Quotes

15. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

— Dr. Seuss

16. “Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.”

— Dr. Seuss

17. “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

Featured in: Learning Quotes

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

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Pain Quotes

19. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

— Dr. Seuss

20. “Being crazy isn’t enough.”

— Dr. Seuss

21. “Congratulations! Today is your day!”

— Dr. Seuss

22. “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

24. “People who mind don’t matter. But people who matter don’t mind.”

— Dr. Seuss

25. “Only you can control your future.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Responsibility Quotes

26. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

28. “A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

— Dr. Seuss

29. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Winning Quotes, Fun Quotes

30. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Valentine's Day Quotes

31. “Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Fun Quotes

32. “I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.”

— Dr. Seuss

33. “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

34. “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

35. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

36. “I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”

— Dr. Seuss

Featured in: Lonely Quotes

37. “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!”

— Dr. Seuss

38. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

39. “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.”

— Dr. Seuss

40. “Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”

— Dr. Seuss

41. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

43. “It is better to know how to learn than to know.”

— Dr. Seuss

44. “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!”

— Dr. Seuss

45. “Don’t live to please everyone. Embrace those who enjoy your company and to hell with the haters.”

— Dr. Seuss

46. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

— Dr. Seuss

47. “Step with care and great tact. And remember life’s a great balancing act.”

— Dr. Seuss

48. “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

49. “All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”

— Dr. Seuss

50. “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

— Dr. Seuss