Quotes About Stewardship

As Oklahomans, we believe in bold entrepreneurship and good stewardship.

We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.

I cannot thank Don DeDonatis enough for his leadership of USSSA, his stewardship of our business initiatives, and his friendship to me over the years.

When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security - especially during crises - the most successful administrations had three things in common: people, process and policy.

Effective stewardship of the public finances has to be at the heart of everything we do.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Chief Sealth, appalled at how his emerald garden had been trashed so quickly, wrote a letter in 1854 to President Franklin Pierce. "The whites, too, shall pass, perhaps sooner than the other tribes," he wrote with the help of a translator. "Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in waste.

They didn't hide by day and only come out at night. They were people who held their communities together, bankers and merchants, lawyers and doctors, coaches and teachers, servants of God and shapers of opinion.

In Pinchot, he saw someone "who could relish, not run from a rainstorm," as he wrote. Just like himself.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us," Leopold wrote later. "When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

It is high time to realize that our responsibility to the coming millions is like that of parents to their children, and that in wasting our resources we are wronging our children.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you.

many of us presume nature has no value beyond our ability to exploit it.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

This passage is saying, "Make the most of every area in which God has placed you." Are you single, married, retired, parent, child, friend, employer, employee, student, or grandparent?

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side. We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis after they had formed a government.

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.