Top 300 Walt Disney Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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

202. “Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.”

— Walt Disney

203. “The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.”

— Walt Disney

204. “We dance, we kiss, we schmooze, we carry on, we go home happy. What do you say? Come on...”

— Walt Disney

205. “I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.”

— Walt Disney

206. “You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.”

— Walt Disney

207. “Besides, you don’t work for a dollar – you work to create and have fun.”

— Walt Disney

208. “To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.”

— Walt Disney

209. “It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”

— Walt Disney

210. “In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.”

— Walt Disney

211. “I don’t pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.”

— Walt Disney

212. “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

213. “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place.”

— Walt Disney

214. “Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.”

— Walt Disney

215. “Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.”

— Walt Disney

216. “Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.”

— Walt Disney

217. “Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.”

— Walt Disney

218. “I don’t believe in talking down to children. I don’t believe in talking down to any certain segment.”

— Walt Disney

219. “Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don’t like, I’m not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.”

— Walt Disney

220. “I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”

— Walt Disney

221. “There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.”

— Walt Disney

222. “One thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.”

— Walt Disney

223. “Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it’s all been a lot of fun.”

— Walt Disney

224. “You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems.”

— Walt Disney

225. “When you’re working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.”

— Walt Disney

226. “No matter what the provocation, I never fire a man who is honestly trying to deliver a job. Few workers who become established at the Disney Studio ever leave voluntarily or otherwise, and many have been on the payroll all their working lives.”

— Walt Disney

227. “I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don’t like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?”

— Walt Disney

228. “The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

— Walt Disney

229. “Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.”

— Walt Disney

230. “Everything that matters to we can work out as expected, in the event that we have the strength to seek after them.”

— Walt Disney

231. “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.”

— Walt Disney

232. “It’s silly to build a wall around your interests.”

— Walt Disney

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

— Walt Disney

234. “A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”

— Walt Disney

235. “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

236. “Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.”

— Walt Disney

237. “The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.”

— Walt Disney

238. “Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland – the blessing of size. There’s enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”

— Walt Disney

239. “When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.”

— Walt Disney

240. “Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!”

— Walt Disney

241. “It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”

— Walt Disney

242. “Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.”

— Walt Disney

243. “A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.”

— Walt Disney

244. “It has that thing – the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.”

— Walt Disney

245. “I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”

— Walt Disney

246. “I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won’t keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

— Walt Disney

247. “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

248. “Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don’t like your face, it’s babaric, but hey, it’s home.”

— Walt Disney

249. “I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.”

— Walt Disney

250. “I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.”

— Walt Disney