Top 180 Dr. Seuss Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Don’t conform for the sake of pleasing others. Mold yourself into the person that you want to be.”

— Dr. Seuss

52. “It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air.”

— Dr. Seuss

53. “Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

55. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

56. “I know it may seem small and insignificant, but it’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become. That’s not a seed, any more than you’re just a boy.”

— Dr. Seuss

57. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

— Dr. Seuss

58. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.”

— Dr. Seuss

59. “It is fun to have fun.”

— Dr. Seuss

60. “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!”

— Dr. Seuss

61. “Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?”

— Dr. Seuss

62. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.”

— Dr. Seuss

63. “Teeth are always in style.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

65. “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

66. “Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon.”

— Dr. Seuss

67. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

68. “Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you’ll go!”

— Dr. Seuss

69. “Sleep is like the unicorn – it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any.”

— Dr. Seuss

70. “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...”

— Dr. Seuss

71. “Everything stinks till it’s finished.”

— Dr. Seuss

72. “The Sneetches got really quite smart on that day. The day they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches. And no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches. That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars and whether they had one, or not, upon thars.”

— Dr. Seuss

73. “If you want to get things you can’t buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

75. “When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.”

— 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. “Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.”

— Dr. Seuss

78. “Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind.”

— Dr. Seuss

79. “Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this.’”

— Dr. Seuss

80. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

81. “There’s no limit to how much you’ll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”

— Dr. Seuss

82. “In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

84. “My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

86. “Think and wonder, wonder and think.”

— Dr. Seuss

87. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

88. “Oh, the places you will go.”

— Dr. Seuss

89. “Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”

— Dr. Seuss

90. “Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

— Dr. Seuss

91. “Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”

— Dr. Seuss

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

— Dr. Seuss

93. “The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: stink. Stank. Stunk.”

— Dr. Seuss

94. “I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult.”

— Dr. Seuss

95. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

— Dr. Seuss

96. “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.”

— Dr. Seuss

97. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

98. “In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”

— Dr. Seuss

99. “I box in yellow Gox box socks.”

— Dr. Seuss

100. “If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I’d be our economy.”

— Dr. Seuss