Walt Disney Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is a state of mind.

The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be doing in Disney World, will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow. We call it EPCOT.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

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

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

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

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

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.

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

You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

All of our dreams can come true...

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

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

We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

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

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

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Even miracles take a little time.

Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.

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.

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

Progress is impossible without change

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

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?

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.

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

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

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

Just make sure you never do less than your best

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

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

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.

Laughter is no enemy to learning

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 function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.