On March 2 we commemorate Theodor Geisel’s birthday, also known as Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss is famous for his children’s rhymes and stories. From Oh, the Places You’ll Go! to Green Eggs and Ham, the best Dr. Seuss quotes for kids also pertain to adults and daily life.
National Read Across America Day was established by the National Education Association on March 2, 1984, to celebrate the life of the renowned children’s book author who was born on March 2, 1904.
Dr. Seuss passed away in 1991 at the age of 87, but his famous characters and rhymes continue to help children learn to read and exercise their imaginations.
Therefore, we are commemorating his life with some of Dr. Seuss’s most uplifting quotes, many of which work nicely as birthday greetings! Some are from his writings, while others are from interviews, but they are all equally memorable.
From the greatest famous Dr. Seuss quotes to Dr. Seuss quotations that urge you to embrace your originality to humorous Doctor Seuss quotes and sayings that will make you feel like a child again, these top Dr. Seuss’s quotes about life are certain to brighten your day.
Some of these classic Dr. Seuss sayings will be familiar to you, while others may be absolutely new. One thing is certain, however: This collection of the 82 best Dr. Seuss quotations and sayings has something for every occasion.
Dr. Seuss Quotes for Kids
1. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
2. “Adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.”
3. “All alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”
4. “Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you have ever imagined.”
5. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percentage guaranteed!”
6. “Be awesome. Be a book nut.”
7. “Be grateful you are not in the forest in France where the average young person just hasn’t a chance to escape from the perilous pants eating plants. But your pants are safe, and you are a fortunate guy. You ought to be shouting how lucky am I.”
8. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
9. “Christmas does not come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.”
10. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
11. “Everything stinks till it’s finished.”
12. “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.”
13. “From there to here from here to there. Funny things are everywhere.”
14. “From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
15. “How did it get so late so soon? It’s the night before it is afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon?”
16. “I am afraid sometimes you will play lonely games too, games you can’t win because you will play against you.”
17. “I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I am not just calm or ham or a dirty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am. That is a great thing to be.”
18. “I am sorry to say so, but, sadly, it is true that bangs-ups and hangs-ups can happen to you.”
19. “I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
20. “I know, up on top, you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom, we, too, should have rights.”
21. “I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.”
22. “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.”
23. “If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along, and you’ll start happening too.”
24. “If we do not choose, we will end up with none.”
25. “If you keep your eyes open enough, oh, the stuff you will learn. Oh, the most wonderful stuff.”
26. “If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.”
27. “In my world, everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”
28. “In places I go, there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”
29. “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 palaces and people you are lucky you are not.”
Dr. Seuss Quotes for Kids
30. “It’s better to know how to learn than to know.”
31. “It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air.”
32. “Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky.”
33. “Kid, you will move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!”
34. “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 would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.”
35. “Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”
36. “Oh the thinks you can think!”
37. “Oh, the things you can find. If you don’t stay behind!”
38. “Only you can control your future.”
39. “Read. Travel. Read. Travel. Ask. Learn. Read. Connect. Read”
40. “Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
41. “Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
42. “Simple it’s not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.”
43. “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act.”
44. “So the writer who breeds more words than he needs is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
45. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
46. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
47. “Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.”
48. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
49. “There is no limit to how much you will know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”
Dr. Seuss Quotes for Kids
50. “They say I am old fashioned and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
51. “Things may happen, and often they do to people as brainy and footsy as you.”
52. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!”
53. “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.”
54. “Today I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
55. “Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
56. “Today, I shall behave as if this is the day I will be remembered!”
57. “Today, you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”
58. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better its not.”
59. “Virtually every page is a cliffhanger – you’ve got to force them to turn it.”
60. “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.”
61. “We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency.”
62. “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.”
63. “Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I am doing, I always tell myself, ‘You can do better than this’.”
64. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
65. “With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
66. “Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
67. “You are in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”
Dr. Seuss Quotes for Kids
68. “You are on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who will decide where to go.”
69. “You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant.”
70. “You can find magic wherever you look. sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”
71. “You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”
72. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. you can steer yourself, any direction you choose.”
73. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”
74. “You have to be odd to be number one.”
75. “You know when you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
76. “You really can’t teach science. Love gets mixed up in it.”
77. “You will meet things that will scare you right out of your pants!”
78. “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”
79. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and answers are simple.”
80. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
81. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so get on your way!”
82. “It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become.”
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