Walt Disney Quotes

“The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.”

“All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.”

“All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”

“I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.”

“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

“The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

“We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.”

“Progress is impossible without change”

“Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.”

“I think it’s important to have a good hard failure when you're young. I learned a lot out of that. Because it makes you kind of aware of what can happen to you. Because of it I’ve never had any fear in my whole life when we’ve been near collapse and all of that. I’ve never been afraid. I’ve never had the feeling I couldn’t walk out and get a job doing something.”

“Our 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.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”

“Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”

“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.”

“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.”

“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”

“I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.”

“I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.”

“You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.”

“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”

“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.”

“That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.”

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