Quotes About Stewardship

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

the only real owner of anything is its commander;

We know that land is more than a commodity and less than a god. It is to be neither exploited nor worshiped.

There are even people among us who haven't registered their land in their names. However, every one of us knows exactly where his land begins and ends. And this isn't just true nowadays. This is the way it's been since time immemorial

I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.

It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

to have knowledge of means to have responsibility to means to have care for.

The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.