Walt Disney Quotes and sayings

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Walt Disney Quotes

1. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney

2. “Fantasy and reality often overlap.” – Walt Disney

3. “Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.” – Walt Disney

4. “The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.” – Walt Disney

5. “Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.” – Walt Disney

6. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney

7. “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. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.” – Walt Disney
8. “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
9. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
10. “A man should never neglect his family for business.” – Walt Disney

Quotes by Walt Disney

11. “Laughter is America’s most important export.” – Walt Disney
12. “The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together – and that’s the backbone of our whole business, catering to families – that’s what we hope to do.” – Walt Disney
13. “There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.” – Walt Disney
14. “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.” – Walt Disney
15. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

16. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” – Walt Disney
17. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.” – Walt Disney
18. “You can’t just let nature run wild.” – Walt Disney
19. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
20. “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

Inspirational Walt Disney Quotes

21. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work – then try to trump it.” – Walt Disney
22. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney
23. “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
24. “All you’ve got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you’ll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.” – Walt Disney
25. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.” – Walt Disney

26. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.” – Walt Disney
27. “I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing’ myself with obscure creative impressions.” – Walt Disney
28. “The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.” – Walt Disney
29. “Whatever you do, do it well.” – Walt Disney
30. “Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Inspiring Quotes

31. “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney
32. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
33. “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
34. “I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.” – Walt Disney
35. “People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.” – Walt Disney
36. “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.” – Walt Disney
37. “That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.” – Walt Disney
38. “Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.” – Walt Disney
39. “Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk – especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.” – Walt Disney
40. “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.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Quotes on Children

41. “I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.” – Walt Disney
42. “The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.” – Walt Disney
43. “I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.” – Walt Disney
44. “Childishness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there’s a certain something that you retain. It’s the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can’t laugh at others.” – Walt Disney
45. “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” – Walt Disney

46. “I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether he be six or sixty. Call the child innocence.” – Walt Disney
47. “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.” – Walt Disney
48. “Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.” – Walt Disney
49. “You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.” – Walt Disney
50. “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Motivational Quotes

51. “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney
52. “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.” – Walt Disney
53. “In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.” – Walt Disney
54. “I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.” – Walt Disney
55. “I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators – a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music – a study of rhythm, the dance – the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.” – Walt Disney
56. “Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.” – Walt Disney
57. “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.” – Walt Disney
58. “I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person, you can’t do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.” – Walt Disney
59. “I resent the limitations of my own imagination.” – Walt Disney
60. “Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Quotes on Mickey Mouse

61. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney
62. “Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.” – Walt Disney
63. “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.” – Walt Disney
64. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” – Walt Disney
65. “I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.” – Walt Disney
66. “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” – Walt Disney
67. “Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.” – Walt Disney
68. “I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.” – Walt Disney
69. “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.” – Walt Disney
70. “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Quotes on Disney Studios

71. “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
72. “We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.” – Walt Disney
73. “We allow no geniuses around our Studio.” – Walt Disney
74. “Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” – Walt Disney
75. “I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.” – Walt Disney
76. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”– Walt Disney
77. “My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.” – Walt Disney
78. “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” – Walt Disney
79. “I believe in being an innovator.” – Walt Disney
80. “At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn’t mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.” – Walt Disney

Walt Disney Quotes

81. “I don’t make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures.” – Walt Disney
82. “Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” – Walt Disney
83.  “I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” – Walt Disney
84. “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.” – Walt Disney
85.  “When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.” – Walt Disney
86. “In bad times and in good, I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life.” -Walt Disney
87. “I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.” – Walt Disney
88. “Money doesn’t excite me, my ideas excite me.” – Walt Disney
89. “Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.” – Walt Disney
90. “I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.” – Walt Disney

Quotes by Walt Disney

91. “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.” – Walt Disney
92. “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.” – Walt Disney
93. “I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.” – Walt Disney
94. “I believe in being a motivator.” – Walt Disney
95. “It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.” – Walt Disney
96. “I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.” – Walt Disney
97. “I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.” – Walt Disney
98. “Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.” – Walt Disney
99. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” – Walt Disney
100. “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