Top 200 Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The human species is terrifically talented and sophisticatedly stupid.”

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

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

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154. “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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155. “All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding.”

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156. “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.”

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157. “Everything is just for a while. Everything is just for its time. Everything is finite. Live and love with these precious moments in mind.”

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158. “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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159. “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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160. “Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back’s against the wall.”

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161. “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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162. “Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.”

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

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

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

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

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “Nothing has value without self worth.”

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173. “Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score.”

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

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176. “You will find little comfort in beating yourself up throughout life. You will find great comfort in life the moment you start being on your own side.”

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

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178. “Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.”

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179. “Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.”

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180. “Everyone can dream. Who is ready to build it step by step, brick by brick?”

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181. “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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182. “Those with inner peace do not battle themselves. Nor do they wage war with others.”

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183. “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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184. “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 invited to it and reminded of it.”

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185. “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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186. “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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187. “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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188. “In this magical life we live it’s as though everyone we’ve ever met is like a star in the galaxy of our experience and beingness. Some are near and shine bright and others are distant and faint. Some present, some past but all significant. All part of the story of our existence – all with their own individual significance. Some known, some mysterious, some unknowable.”

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

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190. “There was is no skill or grace in being rude or obnoxious. There is transformation and growth in being compassionate and kind.”

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

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

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

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

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197. “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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198. “Care about people; yes. Care about how people feel; yeah. Care about what people think; beware.”

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

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200. “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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