Billy Corgan Quotes

Only the mistakes were mine.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

I don't blame anyone but myself for the kind of parts I got. To blame external circumstances is absolute folly.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.