Top 300 Walt Disney Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.”

— Walt Disney

152. “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

153. “It is good to have a failure while you’re young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you’ve lived through the worst, you’re never quite as vulnerable afterward.”

— Walt Disney

154. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.”

— Walt Disney

155. “We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment – as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.”

— Walt Disney

156. “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

157. “The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.”

— Walt Disney

158. “I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.”

— Walt Disney

159. “Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave.”

— Walt Disney

160. “Why would I want to be president? I’m the king of Disneyland.”

— Walt Disney

161. “I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.”

— Walt Disney

162. “We allow no geniuses around our Studio.”

— Walt Disney

163. “I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

— Walt Disney

164. “You can’t just let nature run wild.”

— Walt Disney

165. “If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.”

— Walt Disney

166. “In bad times and in good I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life.”

— Walt Disney

167. “Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.”

— Walt Disney

168. “The fun is in always building something. After it’s built, you play with it awhile and then you’re through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We’re always opening up new doors.”

— Walt Disney

169. “You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”

— Walt Disney

170. “If you act like an adult when you’re a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life.”

— Walt Disney

171. “Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.”

— Walt Disney

172. “Suddenly he stops. He looks up. For, lo, there she stands. The girl of his dreams. Who she is or whence she came, he knows not, nor does he care for his heart tells him that here, here is the maid predestined to be his bride.”

— Walt Disney

173. “Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.”

— Walt Disney

174. “Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.”

— Walt Disney

175. “Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.”

— Walt Disney

176. “It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.”

— Walt Disney

177. “When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, ‘But why do you want to build an amusement park? They’re so dirty.’ I told her that was just the point – mine wouldn’t be.”

— Walt Disney

178. “Direct and easy communications – freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense – has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.”

— Walt Disney

179. “In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character – or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

— Walt Disney

180. “If I haven’t thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.”

— Walt Disney

181. “It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.”

— Walt Disney

182. “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

183. “Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator.”

— Walt Disney

184. “You know, the only way I’ve found to make these pictures is with animators. You can’t seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

— Walt Disney

185. “I don’t have depressed moods. I’m happy, just very, very happy.”

— Walt Disney

186. “I’ve always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.”

— Walt Disney

187. “I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land – no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships – just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”

— Walt Disney

188. “It’s because I like you, I don’t want to be with you. It’s a complicated emotion.”

— Walt Disney

189. “Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”

— Walt Disney

190. “There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.”

— Walt Disney

191. “I don’t want to please everybody. I’d get a little worried if I did something and everybody was pleased with it.”

— Walt Disney

192. “I’ve wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.”

— Walt Disney

193. “I am not interested in what a man can’t do. I want to know what he CAN do.”

— Walt Disney

194. “I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”

— Walt Disney

195. “Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland.”

— Walt Disney

196. “To the youngsters of today, I say “Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity.” Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”

— Walt Disney

197. “Look, you’re really cute, but I can’t understand what you’re saying.”

— Walt Disney

198. “The most exciting and by far the most important part of our Florida Project – in fact, the heart of everything we’ll be doing in Disney World – will be our Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow! We call it EPCOT.”

— Walt Disney

199. “It’s always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it’s the kind of challenge we enjoy.”

— Walt Disney

200. “I have a great love of animals and laughter.”

— Walt Disney