Quotes from Rasheed Ogunlaru

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.

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

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.

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

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

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

While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow.

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.

When you fall short of your goals and dreams ask yourself is it your mindset, perspective, expectations, effort, approach, acceptance, company or a blend of these that needs to change.

Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.

There is no shortage of external inspiration. Open your eyes and look and you'll be dazzled by it. But it's nothing if you fail to see the magic, wonder and potential that resides within.

Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it.

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

All the wealth in the world is nothing, pointless - of no true value - if you yourself feel worthless.

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

Sometimes you learn, grow and give far more when your back's against the wall.

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.

When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

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

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.