23 Motivational Quotes by Jerome David Salinger: J.D. Salinger was officially known as Jerome David Salinger. He was an American author. He was best known for his novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. Here are 23 best motivational quotes by Jerome David Salinger:
1. One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.
2. Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
3. Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
4. I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
5. The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
6. The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
7. An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
8. Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
9. The world is full of actors pretending to be human.
10. Don’t ever tell anybody. If you do, you start missing everybody.
11. Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
12. Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
13. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
14. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
15. People are always ruining things for you.
16. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?
17. People always clap for the wrong reasons.
18. If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don’t watch it, you start showing off. And then you’re not as good any more.
19. Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
20. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
21. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
22. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the ‘Fuck you’ signs in the world. It’s impossible.
23. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
