Walt Disney famous quotes

Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
-- Walt Disney

#Mean #Organization #Worry

A man should never neglect his family for business.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Family #Inspiring

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

#Inspirational #Life #Self Esteem

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

#Thinking #Want #Happy Place

Happiness is a state of mind.
-- Walt Disney

#Life #Mind #States

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

#Inspirational #Growing Up #Children

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

All of our dreams can come true.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Dream #Children

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

#Inspirational #Positive Thinking #Imagination

It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
-- Walt Disney

#Kids #Imagination #Feelings

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Daughter #Fun #Children

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.
-- Walt Disney

#Past #Nostalgic

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

#Family #Fun #Children

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

#Kings #Disneyland

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream #Strong #Children

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

#Glasses #Entering #World

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

#Life #Graduation #Business

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
-- Walt Disney

#Effort #Accomplish

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Dirty #Wife #Amusement

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Pieces #Clay #Stuck

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Fun #Adventure #Magic

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Believe #Kids #Opportunity

People spend money when and where they feel good.
-- Walt Disney

#People #Feel Good #Good People

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.
-- Walt Disney

#Halloween #Scared #Neighborhood

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Communication #World #Limitless

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Land #Rivers #Orange

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland
-- Walt Disney

#Ideas #Years #Today

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
-- Walt Disney

#Eye #Past #Color

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Fun #Adventure #Family And Friends

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream #Drawing #Kind

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

#Education #Hope #Learning

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Mother #Dream

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Life #Birthday

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there's some way to do it.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream #Way

Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland.
-- Walt Disney

#Flower #Adventure #Eye

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream #Stars #Believe

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

#Inspirational #Life #Success

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Men #Artist #Skills

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Horse #Heart #America

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
-- Walt Disney

#Positive #Funny Inspirational #Attitude

Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.
-- Walt Disney

#Believe #Fields #Entertainment

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

#Inspirational #Fall #Getting Back Up

Dear parents, Jasmine was in a relationship with a dirty homeless boy named Aladdin. Snow White lived alone with 7 men. Pinnochio was a liar. Robin Hood was a thief. Tarzan walked around without clothes on. A stranger kissed sleeping beauty and she married him. Cinderella lied and snuck out at night to attend a party. You can't blame us. We were taught to rebel since a young age.
-- Walt Disney

#Liars #Party #Dirty

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Years #People #Firsts

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Girl #Dream #Heart

For every laugh, there should be a tear.
-- Walt Disney

#Life #Fun #Laughing

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
-- Walt Disney

#Business #Making Money #Entrepreneurship

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

#Inspirational #Life #Book

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

#Pain #Rain #Joy

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas
-- Walt Disney

#Thinking #People #Looks

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.
-- Walt Disney

#Jobs #Thinking #Littles

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.
-- Walt Disney

#Sight #World #Sound

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
-- Walt Disney

#Laughter #Personality #Purpose

Do what you do so well that those who see you do what you do are going to come back to see you do it again and tell others that they should see you do what you do.
-- Walt Disney

#Should #Wells

The most important thing is family.
-- Walt Disney

#Important

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.
-- Walt Disney

#Children #Blessed #Imagination

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
-- Walt Disney

#Motivational #Children #Growing Up

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream

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

#Disneyland

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

#America #Long #Alive

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

#Goodbye #Memories #Farewell

Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.
-- Walt Disney

#Spiritual #Heart #Guides

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.
-- Walt Disney

#Laughter #People #Design

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Life #Accomplishment

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
-- Walt Disney

#Freedom #Believe #Men

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
-- Walt Disney

#Leader #Stories #Values

I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.
-- Walt Disney

#Jobs #Thinking #Feelings

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
-- Walt Disney

#Imagination #Satisfied #Resent

My business is making people, especially children, happy.
-- Walt Disney

#Children #People

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Teamwork #Spiritual #Mean

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
-- Walt Disney

#Order #Imagination #Storyteller

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.
-- Walt Disney

#Children #Believe #Talking

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
-- Walt Disney

#Thinking #Want #Lifetime

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.
-- Walt Disney

#Simple #Ideas #People

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
-- Walt Disney

#Experiments #Stills

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Bored #Able #Get Money

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
-- Walt Disney

#Business #Want #Wells

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Dream #Self Confidence #Secret

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
-- Walt Disney

#Animal #People #Personality

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
-- Walt Disney

#Monday Morning #Mind #Looks

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.
-- Walt Disney

#Past #Yesterday #Bored

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
-- Walt Disney

#Life #Beauty #Business

All individuals are different and some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.
-- Walt Disney

#Jobs #Different #Routine

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.
-- Walt Disney

#Wall #Silly #Interest

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.
-- Walt Disney

#People #Innovation #Want

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Thinking #People #These Days

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Jobs #Animal #Cartoon

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Unique #People #Secret

If you can dream it, you can do it.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring

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

#Aim #Focused

I believe in being an innovator.
-- Walt Disney

#Change #Dream #Believe

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
-- Walt Disney

#Lying #Simple #Dimensions

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Goal #Effort #Done

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

#Life #Character #Cartoon

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.
-- Walt Disney

#Motivational #Positive #Success

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
-- Walt Disney

#Inspirational #Life #Dream

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

#Moving Forward #Successful #Goal

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.
-- Walt Disney

#People #Age #Stories

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

#Mean #Independence #Mickey