Words of Wisdom

Are you a Canadian boomer or senior looking for how to inspirational quotes and words of wisdom to put your life back into perspective for 2010? Let Changing Gears be your guide.

A New Year. Shake up your expectations for 2010. Open up your mind to all of the new potential a New Year brings.  

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“Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey

“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.” Henry Ward Beecher

"Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother." Barbara Johnson, Writer

“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do but couldn’t find the time.” Ann Landers

"If you resolve, beginning today, to put out more on your job than you're getting paid to do, miracles will begin happening in your life." Og Mandino, Author 

"Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going." Joe Mantegna, Actor

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.” Benjamin Franklin

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward

“Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.”
Wilfrid Laurier

“Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realize - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.” Lester B. Pearson

“We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.” David Suzuki

Believe in Yourself

Believe in yourself! Believe you were made
to do any task without calling for aid.
Believe, without growing too scornfully proud,
that you, as the greatest and least are endowed.
A mind to do thinking, two hands and two eyes
are all the equipment God gives to the wise.  

Believe in yourself! You are divinely designed  
and perfectly made for the work of mankind.  
The truth you must cling to through danger and pain;  
the heights others have reached you can also attain.  
Believe to the very last hour, for it's true.  
That what ever you will, you've been gifted to do.  

Believe in yourself and step out unafraid.  
By misgivings and doubt be not easily swayed.  
You've the right to succeed; the precision of skill  
which betokens the great you can earn if you will!  
The wisdom of the ages is yours if you'll read.  
But you've got to believe in yourself to succeed.

Poet: Edgar A. Guest