Dr Seuss Quotes



I hope you enjoy this fun collection of Dr Seuss quotes. There is a lot of wisdom in these fun quotes.

Dr Seuss Quotes Index

Activism
Be Yourself
Being Alone
Christmas
Don’t Worry
Fantasy
Having Fun
Humor
Inspiration
Integrity
Learning
Life
Love
Minority Rights
Optimism
Protect the Environment
Reading
The Future
Thinking
Time
Troubles
Writing

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Activism

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

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Be Yourself

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
~ Dr. Seuss

"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

"A person's a person, no matter how small."
~ Dr. Seuss

"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

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
~ Dr. Seuss

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Being Alone

"All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!"
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go! and The Lorax

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Christmas

"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."
~ Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas

"Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Don’t Worry

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Fantasy

"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."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Having Fun

"Look at me!Look at me!Look at me NOW!It is fun to have funBut you have to know how."
~ Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat (Deluxe Edition)

"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."
~ Dr. Seuss

"Fun is good."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Humor

"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Inspiration

"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, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Integrity

“I meant what i said and i said what i meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
~ Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

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Learning

"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

"There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Life

"You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
~ Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"
~ Dr. Seuss

"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."
~ Dr. Seuss

"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
~ Dr. Seuss

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Love

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Minority Rights

"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights."
~ Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz

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Optimism

"Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!"
~ Dr. Seuss

"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."
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

"You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!"
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

"Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you."
~ Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Protect the Environment

"Now... thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there's not enough Truffula Fruit to go 'round."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Reading

"Be awesome! Be a book nut!"
~ Dr. Seuss

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
~ Dr. Seuss

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The Future

"Only you can control your future."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Thinking

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
~ Dr. Seuss

"Think and wonder, wonder and think."
~ Dr. Seuss

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Time

"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

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Troubles

"It's a troublesome world. All the people who're 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

"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

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Writing

"So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."
~ Dr. Seuss

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