Stewards Quotes

• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.

  Wendell Berry

  Environmental, Fellowship, Losing

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• Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

  Marilyn C. Nelson

  Leader, Generations, Roles

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• If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

  George Herbert

  Abundance, Enough, Ifs

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• 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.

  Kim Stanley

  Powerful, Earth, Conscious

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• We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Children, Ocean, Whales

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• Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

  Jack Adams

  Nice, Home, Letters

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• We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Leadership, Moon, President

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

  Martin Rees

  Space, Long, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Long, Leader

  "Leading learning organizations". Training & Development, 50:12, December 1996.

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Civilization

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

  James L. Kraft

  God, Money, Generosity

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

  Rene Dubos

  Nature, Past, Expression

  "The Wooing of the Earth". Book by René Dubos, 1980.

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• Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

  John Calvin

  Giving, Able, Someday

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

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• Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Space, Water

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement. Let us not leave in our wake a swatch of destruction and death which will affect our own lives and those of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Generations, World, Body

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• If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.

  James Robison

  Understanding, Care, Resources

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• It is on my mind every hour of every day that I have 168 hours this week to improve my life. It is really up to me to be a good steward of this time to accomplish my goals and change my life this week.

  Bob Cox

  Goal, Mind, Hours

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

  Bill Johnson

  Tears, Filled, Turns

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• God build’s God’s kingdom. But God ordered this world in such a way that His own work within that world takes place through the human beings that reflect His image. That is central to the notion of being made in God’s image. He has enlisted us to act as His stewards in the project of creation. So the objection about us trying to build God’s kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one’s head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers.

  N. T. Wright

  Humble, Responsibility, Volunteer

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