Top 300 Walt Disney Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

53. “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

54. “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

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

— Walt Disney

56. “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 the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at their lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”

— Walt Disney

57. “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

58. “Just remember, it all started with a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

59. “Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.”

— Walt Disney

60. “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

— Walt Disney

61. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others, and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”

— Walt Disney

62. “Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”

— Walt Disney

63. “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

64. “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”

— Walt Disney

65. “If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate.”

— Walt Disney

66. “Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.”

— Walt Disney

67. “The wonders of nature are endless...”

— Walt Disney

68. “Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.”

— Walt Disney

69. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”

— Walt Disney

70. “That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

— Walt Disney

71. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”

— Walt Disney

72. “Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?”

— Walt Disney

73. “If watching is all you’re going to do, then you’re going to watch your life go by without you.”

— Walt Disney

74. “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.”

— Walt Disney

75. “The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.”

— Walt Disney

76. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

— Walt Disney

77. “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

78. “I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”

— Walt Disney

79. “My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.”

— Walt Disney

80. “Fear too often spells failure.”

— Walt Disney

81. “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.”

— Walt Disney

82. “Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”

— Walt Disney

83. “I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”

— Walt Disney

84. “When I’m dead I don’t want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.”

— Walt Disney

85. “I believe in being an innovator.”

— Walt Disney

86. “Do anything better than it was ever done before and you’ll get rich.”

— Walt Disney

87. “People spend money when and where they feel good.”

— Walt Disney

88. “In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.”

— Walt Disney

89. “I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it’s great.”

— Walt Disney

90. “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.”

— Walt Disney

91. “You’re flying, Buzz! No, Woody, we’re falling in style!”

— Walt Disney

92. “Don’t tell me about the problems – I make the problems.”

— Walt Disney

93. “Even miracles take a little time.”

— Walt Disney

94. “I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”

— Walt Disney

95. “I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.”

— Walt Disney

96. “Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.”

— Walt Disney

97. “My business is making people, especially children, happy.”

— Walt Disney

98. “Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

100. “I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”

— Walt Disney