Walt Disney Quotes

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

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.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

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.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

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.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go

I believe in being an innovator.

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 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.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

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

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.