Quotes from Walt Disney

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

You can't just let nature run wild.

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

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

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.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

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

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

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

Laughter is America's most important export.

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

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

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

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

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.

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

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

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.