Top 200 Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Knowledge comes to me when I think, read and learn. Wisdom comes to me when I am still and silent.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

152. “In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness.”

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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. “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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155. “A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.”

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

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding.”

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160. “The ideas, ideals, ideologies that we hold are learned, taught or sometimes indoctrinated. Some are temporary... some linger indefinitely. Some are found along our path; adopted through desire, desperation, nativity, through hurt, epiphany or realised under a tree. But do not hate the person... instead shift through loving action and transform our deeds.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

161. “It’s always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.”

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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?”

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165. “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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166. “Nothing has value without self worth.”

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167. “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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168. “Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back’s against the wall.”

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169. “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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170. “Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.”

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

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

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

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174. “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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175. “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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176. “The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.”

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177. “Where there’s hurting what’s the learning?”

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178. “Life should not be reduced to a to do list.”

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

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181. “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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182. “Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware.”

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

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184. “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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185. “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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186. “You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally – as a human being.”

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187. “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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188. “You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.”

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189. “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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190. “What would life be like if we shifted from trying to change someone’s mind... to touching everyone’s heart?”

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

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192. “It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love.”

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

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “One moment of compassionate awakening you can reverse a lifetime of selfish sleepwalking.”

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

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