Top 300 Walt Disney Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Recession doesn’t deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”

— Walt Disney

102. “My imagination creates my reality.”

— Walt Disney

103. “A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.”

— Walt Disney

104. “All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”

— Walt Disney

105. “Whether you say you can’t or you can, you’re right.”

— Walt Disney

106. “You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”

— Walt Disney

107. “Do what you do so well – and so uniquely – that people can’t resist telling others about you.”

— Walt Disney

108. “The most important thing is family.”

— Walt Disney

109. “Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.”

— Walt Disney

110. “A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.”

— Walt Disney

111. “Fantasy and reality often overlap.”

— Walt Disney

112. “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”

— Walt Disney

113. “But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”

— Walt Disney

114. “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

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

— Walt Disney

116. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”

— Walt Disney

117. “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”

— Walt Disney

118. “Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.”

— Walt Disney

119. “Laughter is no enemy to learning.”

— Walt Disney

120. “The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”

— Walt Disney

121. “Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.”

— Walt Disney

122. “A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.”

— Walt Disney

123. “Money doesn’t excite me – my ideas excite me.”

— Walt Disney

124. “Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.”

— Walt Disney

125. “Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”

— Walt Disney

126. “Adults are only kids grown up.”

— Walt Disney

127. “Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.”

— Walt Disney

128. “Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.”

— Walt Disney

129. “I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.”

— Walt Disney

130. “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

132. “Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.”

— Walt Disney

133. “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

134. “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place – a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”

— Walt Disney

135. “I don’t know if it’s art, but I know I like it.”

— Walt Disney

136. “I think of a child’s mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

— Walt Disney

137. “A good concert, if you’re kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It’s sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”

— Walt Disney

138. “I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

140. “Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

142. “I’m doing this because I want to do it better.”

— Walt Disney

143. “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.”

— Walt Disney

144. “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

145. “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

146. “Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn – and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”

— Walt Disney

147. “While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can’t afford it, I’m busy getting started.”

— Walt Disney

148. “I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person’s whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.”

— Walt Disney

149. “Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.”

— Walt Disney

150. “Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.”

— Walt Disney