Walt Disney Quotes

320 Walt Disney Quotes

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Girls bored me – they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known.
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Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It’s something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change.
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The stumbling and fumbling around of green, inexperienced people has cost this studio millions of dollars…
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Put your own house in order; put your own mind in order…
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Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideas of freedom and a better life.
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I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.
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I don’t believe there’s a challenge anywhere in the world that’s more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities.
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For every laugh, there should be a tear.
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I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
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The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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Sometimes I’ve tried to figure out why Mickey appealed to the whole world. Everybody’s tried to figure it out.
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You can’t force people to be scholars… There’s other way that people get educated.
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I think happiness is contentment but it doesn’t mean you have to have wealth.
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I had a brother who I really envied because he was a mailman. But he’s the one that had all the fun. He had himself a trailer, and he used to go out and go fishing, and he didn’t worry about payrolls and stories and picture grosses or anything. And he was the happy one. I always said, ‘He’s the smart Disney.’
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[On Mickey Mouse] Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry.
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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continued to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him.
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I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated…
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Deeds rather than words express my concept of the part religion should play in everyday life.
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I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
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Life is composed of lights and shadow, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
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The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil…
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Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency.
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Preaching won’t keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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Wisdom and courage are enough to defeat big, bad wolves of every description, and send them slinking away all huffed and puffed out.
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In our troubled time, the right of men to think and worship as their conscience dictates is being sorely pressed. We can retain these privileges only by being constantly on guard and fighting off any encroachment on these precepts.
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Once in 1923 before I came to Hollywood I was so broke I went three days without eating a meal, and I slept on some old canvas and chair cushions in an old rat-trap of a studio for which I hadn’t paid any rent for months.
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Would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.
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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.
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Leadership implies a strong faith or belief in something.
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Art was always a means to an end with me.
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Without inspiration, we would perish.
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Too many people were eager to take advantage of a young businessman like myself. Besides, I was only 15 and I ate up most of my profits…
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As far as I can remember, being a celebrity has never helped me make a good picture or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter, or impress my wife.
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We’re just getting started, so if any of you start to rest on your laurels, just forget it.
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We just make the pictures, and let the professors tell us what they mean. We just try to make a good picture, and then the professors come along and tell us what we do.
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In the twenty years I have spent in this business, I have weathered many storms. It has been far from easy sailing.
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I have weathered many storms. It has been far from easy sailing.
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