Theodor Seuss Geisel known by the pen name Dr. Seuss was a writer and cartoonist who published over 60 children’s books including including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Dr. Seuss’s ABC, Horton Hears a Who! and The Lorax.
His first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times before finally being published in 1937.
Dr. Seuss was awarded The Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, three Emmys and three Grammy Awards for his special contribution to children’s literature.
The oft-quoted author has many wise words of wisdom so below I’ve put together 49 of the the best Dr. Seuss quotes to boost your optimism.
49 Inspirational Dr. Seuss Quotes
1. “Kid, you’ll move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
2. “Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!” – Dr. Seuss
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
5. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss
6. “Think and wonder, wonder and think.” – Dr. Seuss
7. “You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?” – Dr. Seuss
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’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.” – Dr. Seuss
10. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” – Dr. Seuss
11. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!” – Dr. Seuss
12. “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” – Dr. Seuss
13. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky!” – Dr. Seuss
14. “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
15. “It is better to know how to learn than to know.” – Dr. Seuss
16. “You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.” – Dr. Seuss
17. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
18. “So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!” – Dr. Seuss
19. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss
20. “Everything stinks till it’s finished.” – Dr. Seuss
21. “You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.” – Dr. Seuss
22. “Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.” – Dr. Seuss
23. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
24. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
25. “Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” – Dr. Seuss
26. “When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.” – Dr. Seuss
27. “Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. 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
28. “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
29. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” – Dr. Seuss
30. “It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.” – Dr. Seuss
31. “Be awesome! Be a book nut!” – Dr. Seuss
32. “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” – Dr. Seuss
33. “Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon.” – Dr. Seuss
34. “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
35. “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
36. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
37. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.” – Dr. Seuss
38. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.” – Dr. Seuss
39. “Being crazy isn’t enough.” – Dr. Seuss
40. “He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” – Dr. Seuss
41. “Congratulations! Today is your day!” – Dr. Seuss
42. “Take every chance. Drop every fear.” – Dr. Seuss
43. “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” – Dr. Seuss
44. “Don’t give up. I believe in you all.” – Dr. Seuss
45. “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.” – Dr. Seuss
46. “Just go. Go. Go! I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow.” – Dr. Seuss
47. “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.” – Dr. Seuss
48. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regrets. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Dr. Seuss
49. Only you can control your future.” – Dr. Seuss
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