Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 2

Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony

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.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless.

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.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

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.

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.

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.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

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.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

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

The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

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?

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.

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache - and often leaves a bitter taste

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see

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...

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.

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.

A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

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.

Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded

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

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.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

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.

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.

The stiller you are the calmer life is.

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...?

Your life - and all lives - will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind

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.

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

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.

While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work

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.

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.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

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.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

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