Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The head thinks. The heart knows.

Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

There is no question- love is the answer

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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