Dr. Seuss Life Quotations

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

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.

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.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

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

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

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

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

Congratulations! Today is your day!

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

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

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.

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

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

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

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

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

Teeth are always in style.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

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.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

Be awesome! Be a book nut!

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

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Being crazy isn't enough.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Only you can control your future.

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!

It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.

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

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

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

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.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

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!

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.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

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... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.