Walt Disney Quotes

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

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

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?

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.

Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.

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.

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

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!

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

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

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.

Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.

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

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

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.

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

Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra...or a painter's brush and canvas.

You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.

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.