Last Updated on 22 June 2024

Quotes from Walt Disney (1901-1966)

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
• 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.
• The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.
• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
• Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.
• First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.
• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
• I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
• Ideas come from curiosity.
• If you can dream it, you can do it.
• In bad times and in good, I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life.
• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
• Laughter is America’s most important export.
• Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
• A man should never neglect his family for business.
• The more you are in a state of gratitude, the more you will attract things to be grateful for.
• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
• There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.
• Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
• 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.
• We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
• Whatever you do, do it well.
• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
• Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, then worrying won’t make it any better.