Trustee Quotes & Sayings

Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe. — Amy Leach

We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice. — Narendra Modi

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. — Immanuel Kant

My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own. — Mahatma Gandhi

I am the trustee for the best bloody fans on the face of the earth. — Jack Kent Cooke

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. — Benjamin N. Cardozo

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same. — Mahavira

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like. — Victoria Beckham

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. — Walter Lippmann

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous. — Bill Frist

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. — Robert Kennedy

Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the image of what the world is in its essential being. The Church is the trustee of the society which the world, not subjected to the power of death, is to be on that last day when the world is fulfilled in all things in God. — William Stringfellow

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. — Stephen King

Youth is the trustee of prosperity. — Benjamin Disraeli

I'm by no means an opera buff. — Kenneth Branagh

He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America ... The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. — Albert J. Beveridge

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community
the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

Anyone who thinks that the climbing of Denali is a picnic is badly mistaken. — Hudson Stuck

Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he'd been taught all his life. I am the pinnacle of humanity - a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon. — Brian Herbert

De Blasio went even further, delving back into the Target fray. The pol was a trustee of the New York City Employee Retirement System, which owned shares in Target. The left had already forced Target to cease using money in campaigns via trade associations. Yet the retailer hadn't been able to shake the assault; activists sought to continue making an example of it. They scored a particular hit in 2011, when pop star Lady Gaga very publicly ended a deal with Target for her newest album due to its "continued political activity." Target's share price kept dropping. — Kimberley Strassel

We are charged with doing the best with what we have. Responsibility is associated with any trust A trustee cannot take the easy way out He must use his talent and time to see that the thing of value is not only preserved but enriched by his efforts. — Jim M. Perdue

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking. — Mahatma Gandhi

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher. — T.F. Hodge

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own. — Daniel Webster

A staunch abolitionist, Hamilton was one of the founding members of the New York Manumission Society. He was a trustee and namesake of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, an upstate New York school dedicated to educating Native-American boys. — Eric Schneiderman

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next. — Dallas Roberts

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past. — Peter Drucker

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. — Harvey S. Firestone

One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. — Jessye Norman

Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep ... in a giant blender. — Homer

Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. — Sheri S. Tepper

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

understood more clearly in the light of the Gita teaching the implication of the word 'trustee'. — Mahatma Gandhi

A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own. — John Ashcroft

A Michigan school board trustee has resigned after a flippant comment about "shooting" children with food allergies. — Anonymous