Billy Corgan Quotes

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was beneficial 'cause if I hadn't done it then, maybe I'd never have done it.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.

I think it is the fact that I want to quit that keeps me going. It's very complicated. But I think part of this whole exploration with every job that I do is, in terms of overcoming fear and by overcoming the fear, I feel so much more complete, and I learn something new about myself.

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.

I love putting a chip on my shoulder. It's just more motivation to go out there and show my ability.

My story is all about proving myself, no matter what level I'm on.

There's always people that say stuff about you. I just want to go out there and prove them wrong, and that's what motivates you.

I've got a chip on my shoulder, and honestly, I've always had it, but I don't think about it in those terms, like I'm trying to be better than this guy or that guy. It just helps keep me focused.

I don't let a day go where I'm not doing something that enhances me or allows me to sit up here and keep my spirits going.

Try to be the best version of yourself.

Our Heavenly Father expects the best from each of us. We must believe in ourselves. Don't give in when the going gets rough. You are laying the foundation of a great work, and that great work is your life.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

If you've not got the doubts to go and prove people wrong, that's when you get into that comfort zone and stop progressing.

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

No one will believe in you until you believe in you.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.