Walt Disney Quotes

320 Walt Disney Quotes

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It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
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When I was nine, my brother Roy and I were already businessmen.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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I really don’t work at my best unless there are obstacles to overcome.
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It was all started by a mouse.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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The bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
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I have been flat broke twice…
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Once in 1923 before I came to Hollywood I was so broke I went three days without eating a meal…
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In 1928 my mother Roy and myself had everything we owned at that time mortgaged. It wasn’t much, but it was all we had.
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Our cars had been sold to meet payrolls. Our personal insurance was borrowed on to the limit to keep the business going…
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You can’t accomplish a damn thing by sitting around and waiting to be told everything…
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Too many fellows are willing to blame their own stupidity on other people.
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Get a good idea and stay with it.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney



Too many people grow up.
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I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you’re young.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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Laughter is America’s most important export.
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Adults are only kids grown up…
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human.
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I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.
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You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It’s just according to the way you look at things.
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All our dreams can come true – if you have the courage to pursue them.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

If Mickey [Mouse] has a bit of practical philosophy to offer the younger generation, it is to keep on trying.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk – especially in new undertakings.
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I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.
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[At an awards speech] Before sitting down to count my blessings, I was to make you a promise. I promise we won’t let this great honor you have paid us tonight go to our heads – we have too many projects for the future to take time out for such a thing. On top of that, after forty-some-odd years of ups and downs in this crazy business of ours, we know too well – you are only as good as your next picture.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main…
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Entertainment such as our business provides has been a necessity, not a luxury.
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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.
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The public likes little fellows in comedy.
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The motion picture has become a necessity of life, a part of our balanced existence.
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The business has grown continuously through these years, although at times the road was rocky. But I don’t know of any other entertainment medium that can give to the millions of families the world over more value than the motion picture.
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To translate the world’s great fairy tales, thrilling legends, stirring folk tales into visual theatrical presentations and to get back warm response of audiences in many lands have been for me an experience and a lifetime satisfaction beyond all value.
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