Stewardship Quotes - Page 3

• Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Winning, Self

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

  F.B. Meyer

  Men, Heaven, World

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• The first job of a leader-at work or at home-is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Jobs, Home

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

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• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Trust In God, Pocketbooks

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• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ocean, Future

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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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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• Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Giving, Example

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• Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems.

  Wendell Berry

  Animal, Two, Water

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.54, Counterpoint

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• All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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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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• For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Trying, Collaboration

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  No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perseverance, Effort, Succeed

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• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

  Philip James Bailey

  Respect, Giving, Ethics

  Philip James Bailey (1847). “Festus, a poem. By P. J. Bailey”, p.131

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• I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

  David Livingstone

  Giving, May, Kingdoms

  "Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853".

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• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  Chad Smith

  Brother, Player, California

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

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.

  Jenny Shipley

  Decision, Desire, Males

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• It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Thinking, Usa

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• Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Generosity, Giving, Soul

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• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• [When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

  John Wesley

  Generosity, Thieves, May

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• I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

  Henry Ford

  Jobs, Mechanic

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• We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

  John Stott

  Generosity, Greater, Known

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