Walt Disney Quotes

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

[Mickey Mouse] He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

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

Laughter is America's most important export.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Why would I want to be president? I'm the king of Disneyland.

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

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

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

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.

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

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

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

We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on.

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

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.

Progress is impossible without change

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

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

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.

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.

Just remember, it all started with a mouse.

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

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

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

Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.

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.

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

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.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

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.

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

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

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

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

Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

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

You can't just let nature run wild.

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.

Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.