Top 402 Quotes & Sayings by Walt Disney - Page 4

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

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.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

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.

Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.

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

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

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

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

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

nothing is impossible

At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

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.

Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.

Fear too often spells failure.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

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.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.

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

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.

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

I have a great love of animals and laughter.

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

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 believe in being a motivator.

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

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

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

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

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?

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

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.

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.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

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

To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

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

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.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

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

I don't want to please everybody. I'd get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.

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.