Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Rasheed Ogunlaru has a lot to say. In this list we present the 233 best Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes
Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player – but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life – glad to be alive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
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If you’re jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t be sidetracked by one setback along a path of gifts and blessings
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All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it.
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While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.
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You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.
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Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It’s often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
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When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Champions realise that defeat – and learning from it even more than from winning – is part of the path to mastery.
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There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
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There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you’ll be dazzled by it. But it’s nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Friendships – and indeed most relationships – are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties… not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender – and so on – these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story – for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things.” – R. Ogunlaru
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Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind – and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.
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It’s always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Inspiration may come from many places but motivation – the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive – that must come from you from within
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Communication is the breath or death of any relationship
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Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It’s now – not tomorrow – where happiness and fulfilment live…awaiting your discovery. It’s all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve ‘this’ or ‘that’ or reach something you call ‘success’ in order to gain it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you’ll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else’s
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Your life – and all lives – will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your brand is the value and magic that’s not in your bottle, body or box. It’s the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding
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Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from ‘failures
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Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity
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All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless – of no true value – if you yourself feel worthless.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’ve found that trying to be like everyone else, do what others do and follow others ‘guaranteed path’ to ‘so-called success’ never really works for me. I have found my best strategy is to authentically be me, listen within and follow it….and then to treat and connect with others – wherever I can – personally, personably and individually.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself – for the person you’ll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back’s against the wall.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.
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Don’t waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there’s a perfectly good one within and right in front of you.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s little growth and progression without learning and reflection
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A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time – and to sustain you through it – your motivation must become an inner energy; a ‘motor’ driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately… come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer – worldly – energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages – right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together – blended, combined and re-entwined – motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just ‘self’ serving but enriching to all humanity and societies…just as it should be.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
During my life journey I’ve discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at
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Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it – to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind – for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything – void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally – as a human being
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start the day for you. Have some at lunchtime and again at dinner too. It will energise and sustain you – the whole day through. But it will also leave you room, power and the thirst to do what you need to do and contribute.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You may wonder why so many of my quotes – and all my work – is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich – beyond material and transient things.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open…quiet mind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes it’s important to dare to dream – small or big – like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking – the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters – through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all – love IS all we have and need.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life should not be reduced to a to do list.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You’ll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked – nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
When you feel that others are lacking and failing ….first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The tragedy about history – personally and globally – is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you must walk in someone’s shadow make sure it’s your own
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don’t limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first – and throughout – examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Step outside for a while – calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
We are one at the root – we just part at the branch
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The stiller you are the calmer life is.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There is no well being without inner peace.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment…. bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life – and it’s the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
One of the fascinating things about our lives – and minds – is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life – and even saves lives.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It does not need to be perfect – or technically correct – to be magic
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If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
See money – currency – as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Open your eyes, mind and heart – and then (only then) you will see
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
We spend so much time trying to change others – in part – because we do not deeply believe in and embrace ourselves as we already are. And so more often than not we do not learn to trust and utilize our gifts and power whole-heartedly enough to pursue and fulfill our own passions, purpose and possibilities.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate – just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The only way to change someone’s mind is to connect with them from the heart.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind – not of all involved – nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn’t write that’s been fed to you – that simply you’ve accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you…and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech – their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
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The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it… and worthy of it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion – and the hearts and lives that you touch – that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You’ve got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
When everyone is hungry and waiting – when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking – it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it – and those along your journey – warmly, kindly and mindfully
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: “Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked – nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed – personally and professionally. Even the so-called ‘solo star’ has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do – it will nourish and sustain you…and others too. Hankering will leave you hungry – or with with heart, head or belly ache – and tends to have or leave a sour or bitter taste too.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache – and often leaves a bitter taste
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
They’ll come a time – in fact many times – when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then – at last – is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate – just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t expect others to hand success to you. Create it – with heart, energy and enterprise – and you’ll make it come true
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you’re here and this world keeps spinning
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Authenticity is hard to fake
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The human mind and what we’ve achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is secondary to impact. Success is a list of what you win, gain and attain – it may pass it may remain. Impact is the test; the hearts, minds and lives you touch, enhance and forever change…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The degree of your mindset will confine you – just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world – but only with compassion can you heal and build it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Take a walk outside – it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally – few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The internet and online communication is the window into your world – but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s is not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It is a matter of doing what you love with love. Then your life and all lives will be transformed.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rest and peace should not be left until you’re deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you feel that you are going without go within
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In the long run most short cuts are flawed – especially on journeys to ‘so-called’ success
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded
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When setbacks arise – and they will from time to time – regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our ‘education’. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The head thinks. The heart knows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
All selling should spring from service
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back Into Your Business
Until you understand your customers – deeply and genuinely – you cannot hope to serve them
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Nothing has value without self worth
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It’s the latter who really enrich the world we live in
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
We’re merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose – if you embrace it you become one with it and you’ll be lived.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Tomorrow’s leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre – from the heart
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Love is the only answer to every question
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’ve no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I’d rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It’s your heart that will really keep you on tack… and nourished along the way.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our ‘self’, others and life itself.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There is no question- love is the answer
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
On any day – in any given event – you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
What people say and feel about you when you’ve left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
How you look it is pretty much how you’ll see it
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sooner or later you’ll hear what your heart has always been telling you:stop trying to be who you think you should be – become who you are.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s not the world that needs to change – it’s our consciousness we must raise
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
First one must understand conditioning – only then can we speak of choice
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content – and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sooner or later everything will turn to dust – except love
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear …but because of your love.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Until you understand your customers – deeply and genuinely – you cannot truly serve them
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It’s about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft…
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One leads to the other.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You can’t truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are – what motivates them…?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers – or just their cash?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
If four of you are playing hide and seek you’ll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you’re looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is …acknowledging everyone’s beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It’s unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
I’m often called in as a coach and speaker to motivate staff, teams, the public and leaders. The key to this is simple; you cannot truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are…what motivates them…?
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don’t be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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