INSPIRING AND FAMOUS WALT DISNEY QUOTES (2024)
1) ”I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”
2) ”I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”
3) ”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.”
4) ”I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.”
5) ”Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”
6) ”Money doesn’t excite me, my ideas excite me.”
7) ”In bad times and in good, I’ve never lost my sense of zest for life.”
8) ”I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.”
9) ”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.”
10) ”Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”
11) ”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.”
12) ”I don’t make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures.”
13) ”When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”
14) ”I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”
15) ”I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”
16) ”I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.”
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17) ”I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”
18) ”I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with ‘expressing’ myself with obscure creative impressions.”
19) ”I believe in being a motivator.”
20) ”I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
21) ”I believe in being an innovator.”
22) ”I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
23) ”My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.”
24) ”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.”
25) ”I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.”
26) ”Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”
27) ”At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn’t mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”
28) ”Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
29) ”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.”
30) ”We allow no geniuses around our Studio.”
31) ”We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.”
32) ”We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
33) ”You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.”
34) ”I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.”
35) ”Disneyland is a show.”
36) ”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.”
37) ”Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.”
38) ”Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
39) ”I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.”
40) ”Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
41) ”I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”
42) ”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.”
43) ”When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”
44) ”Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.”
45) ”I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
46) ”Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
47) ”I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can’t do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.”
48) ”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.”
49) ”I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators — a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music — a study of rhythm, the dance — the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.”
50) ”I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.”
51) ”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.”
52) ”Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.”
53) ”All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”
54) ”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.”
55) ”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.”
56) ”It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”
57) ”Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”
58) ”You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”
59) ”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 Jones’ 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.”
60) ”I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.”
61) ”I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.”
62) ”I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether he be six or sixty. Call the child innocence.”
63) ”Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
64) ”Childishness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there’s a certain something that you retain. It’s the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can’t laugh at others.”
65) ”Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”
66) ”Adults are interested if you don’t play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don’t believe in talking down to children. I don’t believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.”
67) ”Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.”
68) ”That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.”
69) ”When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage.”
70) ”People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.”
71) ”It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
72) ”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. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.”
73) ”Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.”
74) ”Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.”
75) ”All you’ve got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you’ll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.”
76) ”Whatever you do, do it well.”
77) ”The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”
78) ”Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”
79) ”First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”
80) ”Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.”
81) ”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.”
82) ”All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
83) ”When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
84) ”A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
85) ”The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
86) ”Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it.”
87) ”If you can dream it, you can do it.”
88) ”I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
89) ”The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
90) ”You can’t just let nature run wild.”
91) ”For every laugh, there should be a tear.”
92) ”You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”
93) ”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.”
94) ”There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.”
95) ”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.”
96) ”Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.”
97) ”Fantasy and reality often overlap.”
98) ”Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”
99) ”After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
100) ”The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.”
101) ”A man should never neglect his family for business.”
102) ”There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes – a powerful force, to overcome the “tough breaks” which are certain to come to most of us from time to time.”
103) ”Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.”
104) ”The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.”
105) ”There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
106) ”Laughter is America’s most important export.”
107) ”Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.”
108) ”Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn – and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”
109) ”That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
110) ”Some dream it, some do it, some do both.”
111) ”You can be happy or you can be unhappy. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
112) ”The secret of Disney is doing things you don’t need and doing them well, and then you realize you needed them all along.”
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