Quotes About Stewardship

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

A lot of people say that I'm an activist CEO. I just think I'm a responsible leader of a business.

The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.

Life is about responsibility.

He made the city [Athens], great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

The commitment of ethical leadership is to make sure we optimize the long- term value of the institution.

Taking out and not putting in soon reaches the bottom.

Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Nature surrounds us, from parks and backyards to streets and alleyways. Next time you go out for a walk, tread gently and remember that we are both inhabitants and stewards of nature in our neighbourhoods.

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

Coloradans of all walks of life value the environment.

Growing up Marley, we wanted anything we put our hands on to be beneficial to the environment and the community.

The role of a trustee is to ensure beneficiaries get the best returns, without the trustee benefitting.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

The biggest thing is to give it back. You want to leave the game in a better situation than you came in with it. That's really important to me, especially being an avid reader and just learning about how to build businesses, learning how to make the most of the business you're in, the ins and outs of the relationships that you build as well.

I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.