Walt Disney quotes:

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Adults are only kids grown up

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point--mine wouldn't be.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?

Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.

Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin- a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up

All of our dreams can come true.

Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.

Disneyland is a work of love.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Disneyland is a show.

To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.

It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project - in fact, the heart of everything we'll be doing in Disney World - will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Flynn Rider: Frying pans... who knew, right?

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.

Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

The American child is a highly intelligent human being; characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

I believe in being an innovator.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.