Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

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

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy ...

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.

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.

Self love is the seed from which inner peace, fulfilment and appreciation blossoms.

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship

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

Everyone can dream. Who is ready to build it step by step, brick by brick?

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

What would life be like if we shifted from trying to change someone's mind ...to touching everyone's heart?

One moment of compassionate awakening you can reverse a lifetime of selfish sleepwalking.

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

Destinations are end points. Journeys are learnings, paths of possibilities, blossoming... fresh beginnings.

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

The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score

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 listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart

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.

Love is the key to a life well lived.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

You are not immune to or separate from nature's energy and flow. See it, feel it, be it, free it.

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

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

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.

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

It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise

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

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

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

There is no question- love is the answer

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

Wisdom is the awareness and acknowledgement of the gap between life as you perceive, project and wish it to be and life as it is - and being shrewd and able (moment to moment) to flow, shift, act, adapt or just be accordingly.

The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.

Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.

Everything boils down to love and compassion - or its absence.

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.

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.

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

Whether you are continuing along the same path or at the beginning of something new, you can always start afresh in your mind, heart, openness and attitude.

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

Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love

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.

Do you view each day as a fresh, new, unique possibility or merely a continuation of all the years you've lived?

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

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...?

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

I've come to realise that the real magic is when you live a life in which others, not just yourself, truly benefit for you living it.

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

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

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

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

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

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

The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever

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

Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation

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

Our attitudes are the wings on which our talent and careers fly or dive.

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

Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational

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.

Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware.

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.

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.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

You will find little comfort in beating yourself up throughout life. You will find great comfort in life the moment you start being on your own side.

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

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.

Perfection is both innate and a work in progress.

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

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.

Don't hold on to dear life - hold life dearly.

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.

The richest journey is the inner journey.