Esther McVey Quotes

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

I know what I can do and what I can't.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

I don't know what's best for other people.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

To know one's own limitations is the hallmark of competence.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

No man is wise enough by himself.

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

I shouldn't be right for every role, because I'm not.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

Really, when you take a step back and you really know yourself, you're able to make better decisions.