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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
Oct 1, 2025
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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.
When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.
You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company. They probably would've had had identical demographics for the people who really loved those companies.
One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.
To all who 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 the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.
I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.
Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
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.
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was I dont belong here. Then I said, Im here; lets get on with it.
But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times.
Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
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.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
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.
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.
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.