Like so many people all over the world I’ve lived with the simple and kind wisdom of Winnie the Pooh and the books by A.A. Milne for decades.
So in today’s post I want to celebrate that silly old bear and his friends by sharing 85 of the most inspirational, funny and uplifting Winnie the Pooh quotes.
I hope you’ll find something here to help you to center yourself, refocus on what truly matters in your life and to make it a happy one.
Inspirational Winnie the Pooh Quotes
“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.”
– Piglet
“Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“It makes such a difference to have someone who believes in you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“There are times when fear makes me feel rather… brave.”
– Piglet
“I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.”
– Eeyore
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string.”
– Owl
“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“The thing to do, when you’re feeling blue, is to make something useful out of it.”
– Piglet
“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“What’s wrong with knowing what you know now and not knowing what you don’t know until later?”
– Winnie the Pooh
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“But it isn’t easy,” said Pooh. “Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”
– A.A. Milne
“Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”
– A.A. Milne
Famous Winnie the Pooh Quotes on Friendship and Love
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’”
– A.A. Milne
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“How do you spell ‘love’?” – Piglet.
“You don’t spell it… you feel it.” – Pooh.
– A.A. Milne
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?” asked Piglet. “Even longer,” Pooh answered.
– A.A. Milne
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
– Eeyore
“It’s so much more friendly with two.”
– Piglet
“A hug is always the right size.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I’m never afraid with you.”
– Piglet
“After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.”
– Eeyore
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“As long as we’re apart together, we shall certainly be fine.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more, to give way to the happiness of the person you love.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
– A.A. Milne
“It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
– A.A. Milne
“One thing you should know, no matter where I go, we’ll always be together.”
– Winnie the Pooh
Funny and Sweet Winnie the Pooh Quotes to Make You Smile
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like, ‘What about lunch?’”
– Winnie the Pooh
“‘Hello, Rabbit,’ he said, ‘is that you?’ ‘Let’s pretend it isn’t,’ said Rabbit, ‘and see what happens.’”
– A.A. Milne
“I’m so rumbly in my tumbly.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I wasn’t going to eat it; I was just going to taste it.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be.”
– Eeyore
“What could be more important than a little something to eat?”
– Winnie the Pooh
“If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget – you just weren’t remembering.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I am short, fat, and proud of that.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”
– Eeyore
“I did mean a little larger small helping.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Yesterday, when it was tomorrow, it was too exciting a day for me.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“‘Pooh,’ said Rabbit kindly, ‘you haven’t any brain.’ ‘I know,’ said Pooh humbly.”
– A.A. Milne
“It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.”
– Eeyore
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
– A.A. Milne
“You never can tell with bees.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I always said Tiggers could climb trees. Not that it’s easy, mind you. Of course, there’s the coming down, too. Which will be difficult unless one fell, when it would be easy.”
– Tigger
Short Winnie the Pooh Quotes
“I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?”
– Piglet
“Think, think, think.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Silly old Bear.”
– Christopher Robin
“Goodbye? Oh no, please. Can’t we just go back to page one and start all over again?”
– Winnie the Pooh
“One mustn’t complain.”
– Eeyore
“Oh, bother.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one.”
– Tigger
“Could you spare a small smackerel?”
– Winnie the Pooh
“TTFN! Ta-ta for now!”
– Tigger
“If it’s not Here, that means it’s out There.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“What I like best is just doing nothing.”
– Christopher Robin
“Tiggers never go on being sad.”
– Rabbit
“I wonder how many wishes a star can give.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I’m never afraid, but I’m sometimes frightened.”
– Piglet
“Buddy, if you’re gonna pounce, you’ve got to have some bounce!”
– Tigger
“Think it over, think it under.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Pooh hasn’t much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right.”
– Piglet
“We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“So, they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”
– A.A. Milne
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