Don't value your self worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Rasheed Ogunlaru is a Nigerian author, blogger and motivational speaker. In the book he said “Don't value your self-worth by others or external things but by appreciating who you are within. And if you must measure your success do it not by what you have gained personally but what you have contributed to a wider benefit.” The key of this quote is the point that we sometimes value our success by what we have achieved for ourselves instead of assessing our success based on its contribution to others.

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