Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 4

There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.
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Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence
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During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.
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A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.
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There’s little growth and progression without learning and reflection
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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.
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It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.
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Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path
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You only ever have three things: 1) your self, wellbeing and mindset 2) Your life network, resources and resourcefulness 3) Your reputation and goodwill. Treasure and tend the first. Value, support and build the second. And mindfully, wisely ensure that the third (your life current and savings account) is always in credit.
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Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.
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Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.
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Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets
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Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.
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Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength
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Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
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I've found that trying to be like everyone else, do what others do and follow others 'guaranteed path' to 'so-called success' never really works for me. I have found my best strategy is to authentically be me, listen within and follow it....and then to treat and connect with others - wherever I can - personally, personably and individually.
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In business, sport, entertainment and beyond an idea is worth next to nothing. The energy, effort, passion, talent, tenacity, strategy, resilience and resourcefulness to see it through and make something of it is worth everything.
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All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless.
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Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity
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Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures
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All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding
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Your brand is the value and magic that's not in your bottle, body or box. It's the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond.
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Your life - and all lives - will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind
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Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you'll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else's
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Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
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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.
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Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed – tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It’s now - not tomorrow - where happiness and fulfilment live...awaiting your discovery. It’s all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.
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Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.
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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.
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Communication is the breath or death of any relationship
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Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within
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It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.
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There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.
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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.
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You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story - for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things." - R. Ogunlaru
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Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time.
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There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.
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Don't value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
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There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.
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When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.
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Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
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Beware trying to iron out all your quirks, perceived flaws and doubts. It's often these things that help you find strength, compassion, empathy for others and heart.
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Don't be sidetracked by one setback along a path of gifts and blessings
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All the love, learning and opportunities that you seek come from being open to life not being closed throughout it.
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While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.
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You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want to happen to happen you may well have to inspire and drive it all.
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If you're jealous of someone else it simply means you have not come to a true acceptance and appreciation of yourself.
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All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully
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It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.
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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.
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The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.
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Almost every so called setback is an opportunity for growth, learning, self love, wisdom and humility
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Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.
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Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.
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