Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 4

Authenticity is hard to fake

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?

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

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers...

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

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.

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

Nothing has value without self worth

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually

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

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

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.

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

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.

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.

First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

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.

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.

Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.

Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.

Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures

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

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.

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

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.

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you

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.

The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

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.

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.

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.

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them

Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

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

The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.

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

It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

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.

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.

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.