Quotes About Stewardship

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

it matters less how much more you make than what you do with what you already have.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt

What was here yesterday would be here tomorrow, and if it wasn't it was no great matter. What mattered was the earth and what it could provide.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

We are only tenants, and shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.

I believe that we do have an obligation to leave the world a better place than we found it.

I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

The world does not exist for our exclusive satisfaction. It consists of billions of creatures all trying to make their way through life, and God loves them all, even the creatures that can harm us (for more on this point, see Job 38–41).

SAVE. If you want to test a young man and ascertain whether nature made him for a king or a subject, give him a thousand dollars and see what he will do with it. If he is born to conquer and command, he will put it quietly away till he is ready to use it as opportunity offers. If he is born to serve, he will immediately begin to spend it in gratifying his ruling propensity. —Parton.