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Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes about life
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
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
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
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
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
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
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
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Your life – and all lives – will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from ‘failures
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity
— 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.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures
— 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
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
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
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
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
We are one at the root – we just part at the branch
— 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
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
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
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
In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness
— 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
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
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
The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it – and those along your journey – warmly, kindly and mindfully
— 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
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
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
Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded
— 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
Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic.
— 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
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
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
Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition – and added in assumption / projection
— 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
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’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
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
Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy…
— 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
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
— 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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