Walt Disney Quotes

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

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

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

Progress is impossible without change

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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.

Disneyland is a show.

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

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.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

Happiness is a state of mind.

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

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