The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Action
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
—Walt Disney
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
—Walt Disney
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Possibilities, Attitude, Imagination
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Vision, Dreams, Leadership
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America… with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
—Walt Disney
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.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Example
Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
—Walt Disney
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.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Challenges, Failure, Adversity
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
—Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Communication
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
—Walt Disney
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Criticism
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Action
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Reading, Optimism, Books
There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes – a powerful force, to overcome the “tough breaks” which are certain to come to most of us from time to time.
—Walt Disney
All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.
—Walt Disney
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
—Walt Disney
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
—Walt Disney
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.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Accomplishment
I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
—Walt Disney
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
—Walt Disney
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
—Walt Disney
Topics: Dreams
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