Inspirational quotes with images: travel, volunteering, sustainability & change 🖼️

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Inspirational quotes with images – Do you run a nonprofit or a volunteer organization? Looking for inspiring quotes to share with your followers? Follow this page, where we’ll be posting powerful images featuring the most inspiring quotes from around the world—on travel, volunteering, sustainability, and making a difference!

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In a world where we are constantly bombarded with negativity, we believe in the power of words and images to shift perspectives, fuel action, and spark hope. Through inspiring quotes from visionaries, activists, and changemakers, we aim to encourage you to take that next step –  whether it’s embarking on a volunteer trip, making more sustainable choices, or simply spreading kindness in your community.

We’re here to remind you that small actions lead to big changes.

Volunteering is about giving as well as growing. Travel is about seeing places but also understanding different ways of life. And sustainability isn’t just a trend – it’s a responsibility we all share.

If these values resonate with you, join us on this journey!

Follow our page, share our images, and let’s inspire each other to do better, be better, and change the world together.

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Smiling woman in an orange dress with arms raised, wearing a backpack and floral headscarf, standing in a green field at sunset with the quote 'Live less out of habit and more out of intent'.

Live less out of habit and more out of intent

Life is a collection of moments

Time is everything we have and don’t

Young woman with long braids relaxing peacefully in a wooden rowboat on a calm river surrounded by trees, with the quote 'It's the little things' and the Voluntouring.org logo.

It’s the little things.

Young backpacker walking in a sunlit desert landscape with a rolled mat and water bottle, accompanied by the quote: 'The things that excite you are not random. They are connected to your purpose. Follow them.' by voluntouring.org

The things that excite you are not random. They are connected to your purpose. Follow them.

Smiling barefoot female backpacker walking along a coastal trail at golden hour, wearing a colorful travel dress and carrying a large patched backpack, with motivational quote about living freely and joyfully written beside her – Voluntouring.org

 

Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, love tryly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that maskes you smile

When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know peace

A young woman with braided hair sits on a mountain viewpoint next to a travel backpack, gazing into the distance under a clear blue sky. A motivational quote is overlaid: 'We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realise we only have one.' – Tom Hiddleston. Voluntouring.org logo is visible in the corner.

We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realise we only have one. – Tom Hiddleston

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air. – Nayyrah Waheed

 

When someone says you can’t do it. Do it twice, and take pictures

The planet doesn’t need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers & lovers of all kinds

Young woman picking up plastic bottle from grass field while volunteering, with quote 'Always do the right thing. Especially when no one is watching.' promoting environmental responsibility and integrity.

Always do the right thing. Especially when noone is watching

Your soul is unbreakable no matter how broken it feels

Two people holding hands walking across an open field toward a forest, with a travel backpack in the foreground and the motivational quote: ‘Choose a good heart not a good face’ – travel, friendship, values, and volunteering

Choose a good heart not a good face.

Always make time for adventures

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There is no right time. There is just time and what you choose to do with it

Silhouette of a female hiker with a backpack overlooking a scenic coastal landscape at sunset with the inspirational quote 'Trust the magic of new beginnings' – promoting adventure, travel, and personal growth by voluntouring.org.

Trust the magic of new beginnings

A young woman with short blonde and teal hair lounges on a bed, gazing thoughtfully upward. On the floor next to her are a large black backpack and a rolled-up sleeping mat. The quote “No reason to stay is a good reason to go” appears above her. The voluntouring.org logo is in the bottom-right corner.

No reason to stay is a good reason to go

Backpacker with arms open standing on a mountain cliff at sunrise, symbolizing freedom and new beginnings. Quote overlay reads: “One day? Or day one. You decide.” Voluntouring.org logo in the corner.

One day or day one. You decide.

Traveler with backpack overlooking Machu Picchu with inspirational quote 'Go after dreams not people' and voluntouring.org logo in corner.

Go after dreams not people.

Woman sitting on a mountain peak at sunrise with a backpack, gazing at the distant snow-capped summit. Text reads "Everything is temporary, don't stress." Inspirational travel quote by Voluntouring.org.

Everything is temporary, Don’t stress.

Smiling female backpacker wearing an exotic veil and colorful travel gear stands in a desert landscape at sunset, with ancient ruins in the background. Overlaid quote by Ibn Battuta reads: 'Who lives sees, but who travels sees more.' Image from Voluntouring.org.

Who lives sees but who travel sees more – Ibn Battuta

Smiling woman wearing a blue floral dress and backpack by the sea with text 'Make your happiness a priority

Make your happiness a priority

Backpacker woman with hat and travel gear standing in front of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon mural and anti-war quote on white wall

The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages — Banksy

Hiker with backpack standing on mountain peak overlooking winding river valley at sunrise with motivational quote 'You get what you focus on, so focus on what you want' – Voluntouring.org

You get what you focus on, so focus on what you want

A woman sits peacefully on a rocky mountaintop at sunset with a backpack beside her. The sky is clear and calm. Text reads: 'Wish list: peace of mind'. Logo of voluntouring.org is visible in the corner.

Wish list: peace of mind

A woman with a large hiking backpack sits on a rocky ledge at sunset, gazing thoughtfully into the distance. Text on the image reads, 'Moments become memories and people become lessons. That's life.' Logo in the corner: voluntouring.org.

Moments become memories and people become lessons. That’s life.

A young woman with a colorful backpack feeds a brown horse along a rural path at sunset. Text on the image reads, 'When you get to where you are going, turn around and help another.' Logo in the corner: votuntouring.org.

When you get to where you are going turn around and help another

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Risks are always better than regrets

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Some journeys are walked alone, but never without purpose

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Quiet people have the loudest minds

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Search for soul in everything

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You are the artist of your life. Don’t give the paintbrush to anyone else

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Be courageous and live the life your heart is guiding you toward – Bronnie Ware

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Eventually, everything connects.

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You have an entire life

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Help, learn, grow, love.

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Just enjoy where you are now

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Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person

 

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Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool. – Syed Balkhi

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You learn to love by loving.

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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it – Maya Angelou

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them, only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts. – L. M. Montgomery

Wherever life plants you bloom with grace

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Your future needs you more than your past

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To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strenght everyone has but not all are willing to practice – Rupi Kaur

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I’ll never be that me again.

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The world is filled with nice people, if you can’t find one, be one.

The world is gonna judge you no matter what you do so live your life the way you want to.

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You are slowly growing but you are still growing and that is enough – Dhiman

Be in love with your life every minute of it – Jack Kerouac

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Wisdom is the daughter of experience – Leonardo Da Vinci

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And I’ve only just begun.

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There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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Your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward.

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Happiness looks gorgeous on you

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Be patient. The best things happen unexpectedly.

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People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them.

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Don’t trade your authenticity for approval

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See rejection as a redirection

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Stay in the moment and cherish each one

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Grow through what you go through

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Every day is a day you’ve never seen before

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Lovely days don’t come to you you should walk to them – Rumi

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The greatest richness is the richness of the soul – Muhammad

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– You can always look up to others for inspiration but never for comparison.

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– Everyone wants to be the sun to brighten up someone’s life, but why not be the moon, to shine on someone’s darkest hour

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– Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have – Thomas A. Edison

– The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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–How do we change the world? One act of kindness at a time.

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– Be so good they can’t ignore you (Steve Martin)

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– Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – (Leonardo Da Vinci?)

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– Encouraging someone to be entirely themselves is the loudest way to love them.

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– Did you know butterflies rest when it rains cause it damages their wings It’s okay to rest during the storms of life. You’ll always fly again once it’s over.

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– Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself – Rumi

– Normality is a paved road it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow – Vincent van Gogh

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– “If you can’t go outside go inside”.

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– Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are – Kurt Cobain

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– The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred. – Dalai Lama quote

 

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– Impossible is for the unwilling. – John Keats

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– Never regret anything that make you smile – Mark Twain

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– My life is my message. (Gandhi)

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– Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in the world but has not solved one yet – Maya Angelou

Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. – Dave Willis

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–Slow down and enjoy the simple pleasures in life.

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– Let your dreams be your wings.

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– Jobs fill your pocket adventures fill your soul.

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– Do good for others. It will come back in unexpected ways.

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– Own your own story. (Ali Edwards)

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– Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you

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– You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.


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