Dr. Seuss Quotes For Kids: 110+ Inspiring Lines To Brighten Their Day

Dr. Seuss, or Theodor Seuss Geisel, was a renowned American author and cartoonist of the 20th century. Greatly known for his children’s books, Dr. Seuss quotes for kids can inspire children to have a positive attitude towards life. Starting as a cartoonist in the 1920s, Dr. Seuss published his first book, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street”, in 1937. He has published over 46 books, with some of his critically acclaimed works being Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lorax, and The Cat in the Hat. His quotes are sure to tickle your kids’ brains as they learn about one of the greatest writers. Read on.

110+ Dr. Seuss Quotes For Kids

Dr. Seuss’s quotes are not only inspiring and motivating but also witty and funny. They also impart wisdom. Share them with your children.

Inspirational Dr. Seuss Quotes

1. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.”

2. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way.”

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

4. “Kid, you’ll move mountains!”

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

6. “Life’s too short to wake up 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.”

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

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

9. “You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”

10. “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).”

11. “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!”

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

13. “To the world, you may be one person; but to one person, you may be the world.”

14. “Everything stinks until it’s finished.” —Dr. Seuss

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

16. “Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person. No matter how small.”

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

18. “Only you can control your future.”

19. “It’s fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”

20. “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”

21. “If you’d never been born, then you might be an Isn’t! An Isn’t has no fun at all. No, he didn’t!”

22. “Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”

23. “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.”

24. “I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”

25. “Things may happen, and often they do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”

26. “I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam.”

27. “Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.”

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

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

30. “No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

Self-Love Dr. Seuss Quotes

31. “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.”

32. “Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It’s more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

33. “I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so myself, Happy Birthday to me!”

34. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

35. “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.”

36. “I’m happy to be here. I am. I am.”

37. “Teeth are always in style.”

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

39. “I treat the child as an equal.”

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

41. “You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant?”

42. “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.”

43. “You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

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

45. “I’m afraid sometimes you’ll play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you’ll play against you.”

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

47. “Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”

48. “Be awesome. Be a book nut.”

49. “I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”

50. “I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.”

51. “How did it get so late so soon. It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn.”

52. “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”

53. “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 and call it love.”

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

55. “If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”

56. “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!”

57. “Cause, you never can tell what goes on down below! This pool might be bigger than you or I know!”

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

59. “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.”

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

Wise Dr. Seuss Quotes

61. “Being crazy isn’t enough.”

62. “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night… everyone is just waiting!”

63. “Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.”

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

65. “They say I’m old-fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

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

67. “Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know; go ask your dad.”

68. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky.”

69. “And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”

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

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

72. “You are in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

73. “So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

74. “I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

75. “It’s better to know how to learn than to know.”

76. “This may not seem very important, I know, but it is, so I’m bothering telling you so.”

77. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

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

79. “I see things more clearly with a little astigmatism.”

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

81. “What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”

82. “For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.”

83. “Adults are just outdated children.”

84. “Don’t give up! I believe in you all.”

85. “You can find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax; all you need is a book.”

86. “Virtually every page is a cliffhanger – you’ve got to force them to turn it.”

87. “You really can’t teach science. Love gets mixed up in it.”

88. “There is no limit to how much you will know, depending on how far beyond zebra you go.”

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

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

Positive Dr. Seuss Quotes

91. “Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.”

92. “If we do not choose, we will end up with none.”

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

94. “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!”

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

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

97. “I know it is wet, and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”

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

99. “ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pachyderm!”

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

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

102. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

103. “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.”

104. “My trouble was I had a mind, but I couldn’t make it up!”

105. “Take every chance, drop every fear.”

106. “You’ll never be bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.”

107. “If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along, and you’ll start happening too.”

108. “You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

109. “You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you’re lucky you’re not.”

110. “Think! You can think any Think that you wish!”

111. “The best slogan I can think of to leave with the kids of the U.S.A. would be: We can… and we’ve got to… do better than this.”

112. “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

113. “I believe in luck. If I’d been going down the other side of Madison Avenue, I would be in the dry-cleaning business today.”

114. “I can’t draw things the way they are. I just get at the soul of things.”

115. “Fame! You’ll be as famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.”

116. “You very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”

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

118. “There is no one alive who
is Youer than You!”

119. “Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!”

Infographic: Fascinating Facts About Dr.Seuss

Dr. Seuss, the world’s best-selling children’s author, has entertained children with his gripping story-telling over the generations. He has also made a mark as an illustrator, animator, political cartoonist, and filmmaker. Go through the infographic below to find interesting facts about Dr. Seuss.

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