Quotes by Walt Disney
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Keep Moving Forward.

What ever 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.

First. think
Second. believe
Third. dream
Fourth. dare.

Some dream it, some do it, some do both.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

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.

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.

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.

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

I never intended to make art.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.

Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.

The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

Worry is a waste of imagination.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

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.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination -- a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.

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

Ideas come from curiosity.

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

All of our dreams can come true.

Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.

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

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

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

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

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.

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

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.

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

Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.

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

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

It's fun to do the impossible.

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

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

Think, believe, dream, and dare.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

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

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.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

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

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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

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

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster -- closed and forgotten within the first year.

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

I believe in being an innovator.

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

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

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

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

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

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

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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.

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.

Our 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.

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

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

Laughter is America's most important export.

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

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

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

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, has 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.

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

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.