J. D. Salinger Quotes

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

You must never get carried away by your success; many people tend to do so after they achieve success in the initial stages of their life. Your feet must be on the ground all the time.

It's not good to have a huge ego.

I never try to get ahead of myself because there's nothing that bothers me more than cockiness. I don't think that's necessary at all.

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!