A Quote by Eddi Reader

It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.

Eddi Reader

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Eddi Reader
Scottish - Musician
Born: August 29, 1959

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

Dominick Cruz

I've been very fortunate to be given the opportunities I've been given, and it's been awesome. You know I'm really looking forward to seeing how this Women's Evolution continues.

Alexa Bliss

I think I've always been very good at taking advantage of the opportunities that have been given to me, because I didn't have many. Once I got one, I grabbed it with two hands.

Victoria Azarenka

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

Oprah Winfrey

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

Judith Durham

I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from.

Ashley Graham

I have just been given a very engaging Persian kitten... and his opinion is that I have been given to him.

Evelyn Underhill

I've been given so much, and if I can just give back a tenth of what I've been given, then it's all worth it.

Heather Matarazzo

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

Dionne Warwick

I took what I've been given, and I got where I did on the basis of something that is often undervalued - merit.

Gianluigi Buffon

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

Eric Church

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.

Court McGee

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.