Rasheed Ogunlaru quotes:

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

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.

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

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.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.

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

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

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

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

Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start anything that you need to do - it will nourish and sustain youand 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 invited to it and reminded of it.

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

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.

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

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.

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

By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched.

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

Be a star not a diva!

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

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow

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

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.

The head thinks. The heart knows.

You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools"

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

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

Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Authenticity is hard to fake

In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

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.

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

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

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.

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

You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.

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

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

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

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

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.

Nothing has value without self worth

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

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

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation

Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.

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

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.

Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness.

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.

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

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 will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

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

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

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

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

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

Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating

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

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

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

Life is the best and only timekeeper.

My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

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

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

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

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 reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

There is no question- love is the answer

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

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

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

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

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.