Quotes About Stewardship

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.

The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

I will be a patron of Battersea as long as I am standing.

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.