Walt Disney Quotes

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

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

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

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

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

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

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

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

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things

Keep Moving Forward

Laughter is America's most important export.

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.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

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.

It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion

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

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

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

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

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.

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

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

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

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

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

nothing is impossible

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

If you don't like Cinderella because she seems so "naive" and "weak," listen to this quote from the Walt himself: "She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

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.

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

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his “Magic Kingdom.

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.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

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 is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.

A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

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.

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

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

Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

I believe in being an innovator.

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.

Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.

Adults are only kids grown up

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.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

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

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

Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

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

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can.

And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

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

When will my reflection show who I am inside?

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.

I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance. I will find my way, if I can be strong. I know every mile, will be worth my while, When I go the distance, I’ll be right where I belong. - Hercules

No matter how the wind howls. The mountain cannot bow to it.

I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!

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.

Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else.

I just want to leave you with this thought, that it's just been sort of a dress rehearsal, and we're just getting started. So if any of you start resting on your laurels, I mean just forget it, because...we are just getting started.

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.

Optimism. One of the most important qualities of a good leader is optimism, a pragmatic enthusiasm for what can be achieved. Even in the face of difficult choices and less than ideal outcomes, an optimistic leader does not yield to pessimism. Simply put, people are not motivated or energized by pessimists.

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.

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

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

Girls bored me - they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known

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.

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.

Rapunzel:I've been looking out of a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be? Flynn Rider: It will be. Rapunzel: And what if it is? What do I do then? Flynn Rider: Well,that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream.