Quotes About Stewardship

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.

If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

Good owners aren't buying franchises because they think it's a good economic deal. They're buying franchises because they're a huge fan of the sport and they want to be a steward of that team. If they just do it because of a good economic deal, they're going to be bad owners.

When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.

If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away.

I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.

The more blessings or resources you have at your disposal, the more I become aware of... how should I steward this? It's supposed to be an investment that I can turn around and create art that gives something to other people. Ugh, that sounds like the most Miss America answer of all time.

We are really excited about being stewards to the community that is Minecraft.

Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.

Our great presidents have been stewards, men who broadly identified with the whole of America.

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

We have a responsibility to be responsible stewards of tax dollars.

Women really are the stewards of the community and their families.