Tim Cook Quotes

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

I firmly believe that to whom much is given, much is expected.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

I have been very fortunate, so much is expected of me.

Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.

The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.