Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (American Children’s Books Writer)

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–91,) better known as Dr. Seuss, was an American writer and illustrator. He is celebrated for bringing a whimsical touch and a colorful imagination to the world of children’s books.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Geisel attended Dartmouth College but later dropped out of Lincoln College-Oxford. After returning to America, he worked as a freelance cartoonist for magazines and advertising agencies, and as a Hollywood writer and animator.

Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book was And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street (1937,) which features a small boy who makes up a tall story about what he sees on the way home from school.

In 1957, Seuss began to write and draw a sequence of “Beginner Books” starting with The Cat in the Hat (1957.) This series used a simple vocabulary purposely to help teach reading—The Cat in the Hat uses just 220 different words and is 1702 words long. It was an extraordinarily critical and commercial success and made Dr. Seuss a household name. Within a year of publication, The Cat in the Hat was selling 12,000 copies a month; within five years, it had sold a million copies.

Dr. Seuss’s other popular children’s books include Horton Hatches the Egg (1940,) Green Eggs and Ham (1960,) and Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (1990.) His books feature a playful way with political or social issues—consumerism, environmentalism, racism, etc. For adults, Dr. Seuss wrote You’re Only Old Once! (1986.)

Some of Dr. Seuss’s books were made into such popular movies as How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and The Cat in the Hat (2003.)

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You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Individuality

Be awesome! Be a book nut!
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Individuality

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Authors & Writing

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Service, Doing Your Best, Helping, Wilderness

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!
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Challenges, Problems, Adversity

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.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Fantasy, Imagination

It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Balance

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Individuality

Adults are obsolete children.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Children, Inner-child

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Loneliness, Solitude

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Balance

If you keep your eyes open enough, oh the stuff you will learn. Oh the most wonderful stuff.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Now … thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there’s not enough Truffula Fruit to go ’round.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Life, Sadness

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Fun

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.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Individuality

If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

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.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Challenges

I’m sorry to say so but, sadly it’s true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Challenges

A person’s a person, no matter how small.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)

Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Graduation, Journeys, Baseball

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Loneliness, Solitude

Oh, the places you’ll go!
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Action

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Reality, Love

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It’s the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You’ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’)
Topics: Imagination

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