Top 200 Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless – of no true value – if you yourself feel worthless.”

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152. “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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153. “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...”

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154. “If it’s deep healing and peace you’re looking for you must acknowledge and honour others’ pain, suffering and heartache – not just yours.”

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155. “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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156. “Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.”

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157. “Only love and compassion can bring true and lasting transformation.”

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158. “Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations.”

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159. “Perfection is both innate and a work in progress.”

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160. “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.”

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161. “Why wallow in a puddle of self pity when there’s a sea of self acceptance and self realisation waiting for you?”

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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.”

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165. “Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.”

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166. “Authenticity is hard to fake.”

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167. “Knowledge comes to me when I think, read and learn. Wisdom comes to me when I am still and silent.”

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168. “The magic, grace, growth and wonder of life is that wisdom follows a fall and defeat not from a win.”

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169. “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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170. “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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171. “Nothing has value without self worth.”

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172. “The ego is so clever it even possesses a set of humble clothes.”

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173. “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 and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich – beyond material and transient things.”

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174. “I’ve come to realise that the real magic is when you live a life in which others, not just yourself, truly benefit for you living it.”

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175. “Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.”

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176. “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.”

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177. “All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding.”

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178. “There’s a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.”

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179. “Ten Keys To Success: Number 0; there is no easy or guaranteed recipe. Number 11: some else’s path to it will not be yours.”

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180. “My life is an extraordinary journey. It takes me into many rooms in which I wear many coats of many colours. Underneath and beyond all these is myself as I am. I speak many words and sing many songs to help others find their own voice and path. But the music is always the same: embrace yourself, embrace life itself.”

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181. “Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets.”

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182. “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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183. “It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.”

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184. “We are one at the root – we just part at the branch.”

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185. “A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.”

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186. “If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first – and throughout – examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.”

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187. “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.”

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188. “Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.”

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189. “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.”

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190. “Gratitude is the best food to start and sustain you. Hankering creates hunger, unhappiness, bellyache, headache and heartache – and often leaves a bitter taste.”

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191. “Loving someone and being with them are two different things. Just cherish the magical times that both interlink.”

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192. “Don’t hold on to dear life – hold life dearly.”

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193. “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.”

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194. “The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.”

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195. “Don’t expect others to hand success to you. Create it – with heart, energy and enterprise – and you’ll make it come true.”

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

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197. “When everyone is hungry and waiting – when things need doing urgently and the clock is ticking – it’s often wiser to get cooking and present a ready-made dish they’ll find tasty to eat rather than getting everyone involved in deciding on the recipe.”

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198. “To me success and fulfilment lead in two different directions: one outwardly to the hope of glory, the other inwardly to the guarantee of peace.”

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199. “Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures.”

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200. “There will be many people whose lives you have enriched who may never tell you it – or that you’ve never even met – but you will have enriched them none the less.”

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