Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 2

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully

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.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

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.

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

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.

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free

If you feel that you are going without go within

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.

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.