יְהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן פְּרַחְיָה אוֹמֵר, עֲשֵׂה לְךָ רַב, וּקְנֵה לְךָ חָבֵר, וֶהֱוֵי דָן אֶת כָּל הָאָדָם לְכַף זְכוּת:
Yehoshua ben Perachia says, "Make for yourself a mentor, acquire for yourself a friend and judge every person as meritorious."
בְמָקוֹם שֶׁאֵין אֲנָשִׁים, הִשְׁתַּדֵּל לִהְיוֹת אִישׁ:
In a place where there is no man, strive to be a man.
אמר רב נהילאי בר אידי אמר שמואל כיון שנתמנה אדם פרנס על הציבור
Rav Nehilai bar Idi said that Shmuel said: Once a man is appointed as a leader of the community, he becomes wealthy.
"Most often, the man who becomes leader is not the one that knows the way but the one who behaves as if he does. " - Shim’oni
“The things we spend most of our time pursuing turn out to be curiously irrelevant when it comes to seeing the value of a life as a whole. ” - Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks