“I have learnt that I am me.” Agatha Christie’s quiet realization is a reminder that ability begins with knowing and accepting ourselves. These quotes honor the gentle confidence and daily practice that help us grow into who we’re meant to be. ✨

We are all more capable than we think we are. ~ Anne Murray

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. ~ Johann von Goethe

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. ~ Andrew Carnegie

I know how to do anything—I'm a mom. ~ Rosanne Barr

My mother said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy... ~ Maya Angelou

Ability is useless unless it's used. ~ Robert Half

I think most people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good—or there because they're lucky. ~ Katharine Hepburn

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work... ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For whatever reason, God has blessed me... ~ Denzel Washington

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty is never old. ~ Franz Kafka

It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better. ~ Alberta Lee Cox

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. ~ Donald Kircher

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them. ~ Patricia Jasper Clark

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ~ Zig Ziglar