Tim Cook Quotes

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

A good role is something that will stretch your abilities and make you go beyond your levels.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

It is only by giving people the tools to empower themselves will they be able to achieve their potential.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

The world won't step into its greatness until we step into ours.

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.