Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that those who are given responsibilities are like angels, tasked with important missions to uplift others.
Maimonides emphasizes the profound significance of being entrusted with a mission, portraying individuals in these roles as angels who carry out responsibilities aimed at the betterment of society. This quote invites reflection on how leadership and service to others can elevate one's purpose and moral duty, highlighting the divine nature of guidance and support that those in positions of responsibility can offer to their communities.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a leadership seminar to inspire attendees.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.
Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
Leaders donβt complain about whatβs not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
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