Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Dr. Seuss Quotes
CareerPoliticsPriorities I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
Authorship vs Reader PerceptionInfluence Through WordsInterpretationMeaning-Driven Perspectives 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.
AwarenessPhilosophySurpriseTime 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?
CreativitySimplicityTrust I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
HumorImaginationOptimismPerspectiveResilience 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.
AuthenticityIndividualitySelf-Discovery Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
CareChangeCompassionResponsibility Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
HumorInterconnectednessMovementPlayfulnessUniversality From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Independent LearningPersonal GrowthSelf RelianceTeacher Guidance You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
CreativityImaginationPotentialThinking Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
ChoiceDecision MakingEmpowermentSelf Reliance 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.
IncompatibilityPersonal FitSelf-awareness Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
ActivismAngerEnvironmentalismSocial Commentary Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
ResilienceSelf-Improvement Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
BureaucracyMedical TreatmentPaperwork When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
EffortEngagementReadingWriting The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.