Walt Disney was an American cartoonist and entrepreneur who was a pioneer in the development of animation. He was the creator of some of the world's most beloved characters, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney also founded the Walt Disney Company, which is now one of the largest media companies in the world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Walt Disney on success, leadership, customer service.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
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Walt Disney Image Quotes
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney
A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates's loot on treasure island.
If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney
Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust. — Walt Disney
Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem. — Walt Disney
All of our dreams can come true... — Walt Disney
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
Progress is impossible without change — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Short Quotes
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Even miracles take a little time.
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.
The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
I function better when things are going badly than when they're as smooth as whipped cream.
There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish.
The difference between winning and losing is most often not qiuting.
Walt Disney Quotes About Success
Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
First think, second believe, third dream and finally dare.
nothing is impossible — Walt Disney
Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy. — Walt Disney
To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it. — Walt Disney
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Walt Disney Quotes About Leadership
The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it! — Walt Disney
Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem. — Walt Disney
All of our dreams can come true... — Walt Disney
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. — Walt Disney
The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence. — Walt Disney
Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare. — Walt Disney
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. — Walt Disney
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with. — Walt Disney
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Walt Disney Quotes About Disneyland
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. — Walt Disney
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place... — Walt Disney
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees. — Walt Disney
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland? — Walt Disney
Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends. — Walt Disney
Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Change
Progress is impossible without change — Walt Disney
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. — Walt Disney
Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Family
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family. — Walt Disney
Family fun is as necessary to modern living as a kitchen refrigerator. — Walt Disney
It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child. — Walt Disney
I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom. — Walt Disney
The most important thing is family. — Walt Disney
Never put business before family. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Imagination
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. — Walt Disney
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination. — Walt Disney
Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight. — Walt Disney
Fantasy and reality often overlap. — Walt Disney
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... — Walt Disney
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid. — Walt Disney
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions. — Walt Disney
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear. — Walt Disney
First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream.And finally, dream. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Storytelling
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney
It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer. — Walt Disney
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Innovative
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. — Walt Disney
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. — Walt Disney
I believe in being an innovator. — Walt Disney
You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Inspirational
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. — Walt Disney
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. — Walt Disney
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. — Walt Disney
Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk. — Walt Disney
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. — Walt Disney
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About Motivational
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. — Walt Disney
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. — Walt Disney
I believe in being a motivator. — Walt Disney
The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting. — Walt Disney
Just make sure you never do less than your best — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About People
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. — Walt Disney
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us. — Walt Disney
The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Quotes About World
The most exciting and, by far, the most important part of our Florida project, in fact, the heart of everything well be doing in Disney World, will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow. We call it EPCOT. — Walt Disney
Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should. — Walt Disney
To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train. — Walt Disney
Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget. — Walt Disney
Walt Disney Famous Quotes And Sayings
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney
A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it. — Walt Disney
Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely. — Walt Disney
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. — Walt Disney
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. — Walt Disney
Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem. — Walt Disney
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. — Walt Disney
All of our dreams can come true... — Walt Disney
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. — Walt Disney
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. — Walt Disney
Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
Progress is impossible without change — Walt Disney
Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. — Walt Disney
Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland. — Walt Disney
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. — Walt Disney
The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past. — Walt Disney
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. — Walt Disney
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role. — Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. — Walt Disney
Adults are only kids grown up — Walt Disney
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun. — Walt Disney
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. — Walt Disney
The wonders of nature are endless. — Walt Disney
Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be. — Walt Disney
Disneyland is a work of love. — Walt Disney
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives. — Walt Disney
She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him. — Walt Disney
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born. — Walt Disney
Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland — Walt Disney
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action. — Walt Disney
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. — Walt Disney
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. — Walt Disney
Laughter is America's most important export. — Walt Disney
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. — Walt Disney
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. — Walt Disney
Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right. — Walt Disney
Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort. — Walt Disney
Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved. — Walt Disney
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it. — Walt Disney
Life Lessons by Walt Disney
Walt Disney teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard they may seem to achieve. He worked hard to create the iconic characters and stories that have inspired generations of people.
Walt Disney also shows us the importance of staying true to our values and beliefs, and never compromising on them. He was a firm believer in the power of imagination and creativity, and his work reflects this.
Finally, Walt Disney reminds us that hard work and dedication can pay off in the end. He persevered through many challenges and failures on his way to becoming one of the most beloved cartoonists of all time.
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