20 Inspiring Quotes for Your Volunteers

One of the key things you must do as a leader is to encourage and inspire the people who are following you.

I have found that timely quotes are a great way to do this for your volunteers.

Here are 20 great quotes you can share with your volunteers.

Volunteers don't serve for the income...rather they serve for the outcome.

Act as if what you do makes a difference...because it does. -William James

Everyone can be great...because everyone can serve. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. -Mother Teresa

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: It is more blessed to give than to receive. -Acts 20:35

Volunteers don’t get paid, not because they’re worthless, but because they’re priceless. -Sherry Anderson

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. -Winston Churchill

If you want to touch the future, then touch a life.

Volunteers are love in motion!

At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished…it’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back. – Denzel Washington

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. –Albert Pike

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. –Nelson Henderson

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. -Ronald Reagan

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. -Jackson Brown Jr.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. -Betty Reese

Volunteer. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe

Volunteering is at the core of being a human. No one has made it through life without the help of someone else. -Heather French Henry.

The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers.” -Terri Guillemets

These quotes are great to share in team meetings, newsletters, text messages, etc. Share them with your volunteers and you will see the impact it will make in their life and ministering.