Walt Disney Quotes

“I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.”

“The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.”

“The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.”

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

“My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.”

“It's silly to build a wall around your interests.”

“To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.”

“Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”

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

“If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.”

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

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

“I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?”

“My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.”

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

“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 of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.”

“I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”

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

“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.”

“I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.”

“I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”

“The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it!”

“Progress is impossible without change”

“I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You're flying Buzz! No Woody we're falling in style!”

“If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”

“Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.”

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

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

“Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.”

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

“Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.”

“I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.”

“Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”

“Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Laughter is America's most important export.”

“Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse.”

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

“The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.”

“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”

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

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