Quotes by Walt Disney

• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
• Laughter is America's most important export.
• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
• There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
• 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.
• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
• Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
• Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
• You reach a point where you don't work for money.
• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
• You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
• You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
• You can't just let nature run wild.
• When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
• We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
• 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 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.
• We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
• It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
• A man should never neglect his family for business.
• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
• 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.
• Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
• Disneyland is a show.
• I believe in being an innovator.
• Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
• I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
• 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.
• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
• I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
• I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
• Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
• If you can dream it, you can do it.
• Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
• All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
• Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
• All dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
• The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing
• All dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
• Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so dream big and never give up.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so never stop believing in the magic within.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes; never stop believing in the power of your dreams.
• All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes
• All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them
• Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind. Trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.
• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them
• Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes as long as you believe in its possibility
• A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep.
• All dreams can come true if we have courage to pursue them.
• If you can dream it, you can do it
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, never stop believing in them
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so dare to dream and keep chasing.
• Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, only you have the power to bring it to life
• Failure is often the first step towards success.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so always pursue them with courage and conviction.
• A dream is just a wish unless you take action to make it real
• All dreams can come true if we have the wisdom,to pursue them
• Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so dream big and never stop chasing it
• A dream is a wish your heart makes, so always keep dreaming.
• No dream is too big and no detail too small
• All dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
• All our dreams can come true, if we have courage to pursue them.
• All our dreams can come true if we have courage to pursue them.
• All dreams could come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
• Don't just fly, soar.
• Don't just fly, soar!
• Don't just fly, soar to new heights
• Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.
• The way to get started is to quit, talking and begin doing.
• Remember you're the one who can fill the world with sunshine.
• Don't just fly, soar high above the rest.
• Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
• Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.
• Life is one big canvas, so throw all the paint on it you can find!