Walt Disney Quotes

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

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

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.

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.

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.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

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

Laughter is no enemy to learning

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

If I depended on critics and children to make a living I'd grow broke.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.

Laughter is America's most important export.

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

I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

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.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

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

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

Happiness is a state of mind.

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.

I never intended to make art.

While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.

Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

its fun to do the unexpected.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

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.

If I haven't thought about six impossible things before breakfast, I consider the day wasted.

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.

Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.

I am not interested in what a man can't do. I want to know what he CAN do.

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

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

The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

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.

Ideas come from curiosity.

In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.

I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.