Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.

If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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.

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

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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

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

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

You can't just let nature run wild.

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

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

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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