Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

“The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Authenticity is hard to fake”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“If you feel that you are going without go within”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“In broad terms; success is something you spend your lifetime looking for and happiness is something you spend your whole life overlooking”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The human mind and what we've achieved with it is remarkable. But it does not come close to what we can do, be, see and heal with our hearts”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

“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”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

“Nothing has value without self worth”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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...”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

“Be a star not a diva!”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“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.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru