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.
The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.
Although the attorney general is a part of the president's team, you're really separate and apart. You have a special responsibility as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There has to be a distance that you keep - between this department and the White House.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
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