Top Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life an...

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.

Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?

Authenticity is hard to fake

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.

During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic

Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence

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

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.

Nothing has value without self worth

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

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,...

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

The head thinks. The heart knows.

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.

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

Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.