45 Inspiring Dr. Seuss Quotes That Make You Think

Dr. Seuss was a literary genius. His intelligence, wit, and talent for translating complex concepts into simple cartoons are what helped him sell over 600 million copies of children’s books. Growing up as a child who read a lot of books, Dr. Seuss was always a staple in my collection. Books such as “The Cat in the Hat”, “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” and “Green Eggs and Ham” even today bring back those warm fuzzy feelings I got when I read them as a child. Back then I simply enjoyed the wordplay and bright illustrations but it was in my late teens when I began to truly appreciate the powerful quotes and gems hidden throughout Dr. Seuss’s writing.

Over the years, I have learned a lot of helpful things from Dr. Seuss and I feel through his writing, Dr. Seuss has been an amazing role model for me. While his stories are usually non-fiction, the messages and themes in them are very applicable to day-to-day life. His words and quotes if reflected over can really help in bringing a positive change in your life.

This is a hand-picked collection of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes which inspire and motivate me up to this day and I am confident they will inspire you too!

45 Dr. Seuss Quotes That Will Inspire & Teach You New Lessons:

1. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss
2. And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.) – Dr. Seuss
3. 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
4. If things start happening. Don’t worry. Don’t stew. Just go right along and you’ll start happening too. – Dr. Seuss
5. Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s a great balancing act. – Dr. Seuss
6. Why fit in when you were born to stand out? – Dr. Seuss
7. Unless someone like YOU cares a whole awful lot. NOTHING is going to get better. – Dr. Seuss
8. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh. The things you can think up if you only try. – Dr. Seuss
9. People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love. – Dr. Seuss
10. Everything stinks till it’s finished. – Dr. Seuss
11. Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you. – Dr. Seuss
12. And the turtles, of course… all the turtles are FREE as turtles and maybe, ALL creatures should be. – Dr. Seuss
13. You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And YOU MAY! – Dr. Seuss
14. Why fit in when you were born to STANDOUT! – Dr. Seuss
15. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
16. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. – Dr. Seuss
17. 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. – Dr. Seuss
18. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting. So… Get on your way. – Dr. Seuss
19. A person’s a person. No matter how small. – Dr. Seuss
20. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. – Dr. Seuss
21. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. – Dr. Seuss
22. You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in. – Dr. Seuss
23. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. – Dr. Seuss
24. Don’t give up, I believe in you all. – Dr. Seuss
25. Think and wonder, wonder and think. – Dr. Seuss
26. You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. – Dr. Seuss
27. Kid, you’ll move mountains! – Dr. Seuss
28. Adults are just outdated children. – Dr. Seuss
29. Only you can control your future. – Dr. Seuss
30. 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
31. Fun is good. – Dr. Seuss
32. Shout loud, “I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam or a ham or a dusty old jar of sour gooseberry jam! – Dr. Seuss
33. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
34. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss
35. Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry. – Dr. Seuss
36. Sometimes you never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory. – Dr. Seuss
37. I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you. – Dr. Seuss
38. When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad… you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! – Dr. Seuss
39. Read.
    Travel.
    Read.
    Ask.
    Read.
    Learn.
    Read.
    Connect.
    Read. – Dr. Seuss
40. 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 to get wet, too. – Dr. Seuss
41. A tree falls the way it leans, be careful which way you lean. – Dr. Seuss
42. You have to be odd to be number one. – Dr. Seuss
43. Teeth are always in style. – Dr. Seuss
44. 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
45. 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