The Top 77 Dr. Seuss Quotes That You Should Know

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Dr. Seuss was a writer who captured the minds of generations of children with his words. With that in mind, check out the top 77 Dr. Seuss Quotes.

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#77 – 70. Dr. Seuss Quotes

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

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

75. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

74. In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

73. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is You-er than You.

72. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

71. Being crazy isn’t enough.

70. Think and wonder. Wonder and think.

#69 – 60. Dr. Seuss Quotes

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

68. Teeth are always in style.

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

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

65. I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

64. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

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

62. 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.

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

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

#59 – 50. Dr. Seuss Quotes

59. I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!

58. To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.

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

56. Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!

55. You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…

54. I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

53. 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?

52. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

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

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

#49 – 40. Dr. Seuss Quotes

49. People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

48. 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!

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

46. 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!

45. Think and wonder, wonder and think.

44. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

43. You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!

42. Congratulations! Today is your day!

41. He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man

40. Think! You can think any Think that you wish!

#39 – 30. Dr. Seuss Quotes

39. You’ll be on your way up, You’ll be seeing great sights, You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

38. Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

37. Adults are just outdated children.

36. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

35. 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!

34. 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.

33. Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

32. 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.

31. With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

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

#29 – 20. Dr. Seuss Quotes

29. It is fun to have fun but you have to know how.

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

27. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

26. Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

25. Be awesome! Be a book nut!

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

23. A person’s a person, no matter how small.

22. Everything stinks till it’s finished.

21. You’re off to great to places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way.

20. So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

#19 – 10. Dr. Seuss Quotes

19. 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.

18. It’s opener there in the wide open air.

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

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

15. I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so my self, Happy Birthday to me!

14. Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky!

13. It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.

12. And you very small persons will not have to die if you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

11. Take every chance. Drop every fear.

10. I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.