Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

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

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

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

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

It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.

I don't do things that I'm not good at.

The main thing is to be honest with yourself, know and recognize your limits and attain maximum achievement within them. I would for example get more satisfaction from climbing Snowdon, which I know I could, than from attempting Everest, which I couldn't.

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

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

In reality, I am more a professor, one who reflects and mediates on spiritual questions. Practical governance is not my strong point, and this is certainly a weakness. But I do not see myself as a failure. For eight years, I carried out my work.

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

At all points, you have to look at what you're doing and say, 'Do I want to do this?' 'Am I up to it?' 'Am I strong enough?'

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

I've always thought I was talented.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

Nobody goes, 'I'm a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys'... Nobody ever says that. That's the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I'm not the best.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I know my limitations; I know what I can do and what I can't.

Any time it's a Swanton, I'm confident. But if I feel I can't do it, I won't do it.

I've always said I think I'm a totally normal guy.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.