Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
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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...?
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It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.
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Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
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Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
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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.
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Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free
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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.
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Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony
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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.
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To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?
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You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...?
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It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.
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My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
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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.
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Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
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Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...
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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.
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Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
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Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them
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It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.
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Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.
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Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
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The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
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Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.
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The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present
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You cannot pour more water into a full cup without causing a spillage.
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Sooner or later everything will turn to dust - except love
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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
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First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
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It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
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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.
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How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it
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In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.
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The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.
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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.
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Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.
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If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else
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Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...
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What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.
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In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
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Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?
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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
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There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
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On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%
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Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within
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There is no question- love is the answer
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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.
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Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.
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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.
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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.
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Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth
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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.
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I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.
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Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection
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