<p>Welcome to<strong> the Daily Quote</strong> – I&#39;m Andrew McGivern.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is brought to you by the <a href="https://greatnewspodcast.com/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Great News podcast</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Today&#39;s quote comes from <strong>Morgan Freeman</strong>, the legendary actor whose career spans over five decades of excellence.</p><p><br>He said:</p><p><br><em><strong>&quot;You can&#39;t take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.&quot;</strong></em></p><p><br>You can&#39;t take credit for talent. You were born with it. Or you developed it early. But it was given to you.<br>The credit – the thing you can actually own – is what you do with it.</p><p><br>Morgan Freeman didn&#39;t choose to have that voice. That presence. That natural ability to embody characters. That was talent. A gift.</p><p><br>But he chose to use it. He chose to audition. To study. To take small roles. To keep working when others quit. To refine his craft for decades.</p><p><br>The talent was free. The using it? That was all him.</p><p><br>And here&#39;s what makes this so important: lots of people have talent. Probably more than you think. Maybe you have it too.<br></p><p>But talent without use is worthless. It&#39;s potential that stays potential. It&#39;s a gift that never gets unwrapped.<br>You don&#39;t get credit for potential. You get credit for action. For showing up. For doing the work. For using what you&#39;ve been given.</p><p><br>Think about all the talented people who never became anything. All the gifted musicians who never made music. The natural athletes who never competed. The brilliant minds who never created.</p><p><br>They had talent. But they didn&#39;t use it. So the talent doesn&#39;t matter.</p><p><br>Freeman is reminding us: don&#39;t mistake having talent for deserving success. Talent is just the starting point. What you do with it is what counts.</p><p><br>And here&#39;s the liberating part: even if you don&#39;t have natural talent, you can still take credit for the work. For the effort. For showing up and using whatever you have.</p><p><br>Because using what you have – talent or not – is always worth more than wasting what you were given.</p><p><br>So here&#39;s the question: What talent or ability do you have that you&#39;re not using? And what would happen if you actually put it to work?</p><p><br>Because you can&#39;t take credit for having it. But you can take full credit for using it.<br>Start using it. That&#39;s where the credit lives.</p><p><br>That&#39;s it for today. I&#39;m Andrew McGivern – I&#39;ll see you in the next one with another Daily Quote.</p>