“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller.

Thank you vInspired for 8 inspiring quotes for volunteers who make a difference.These words sum up so succinctly how I feel, that I was motivated to make a list of 10 of my favourite quotes. Here they are:

• “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try” John F Kennedy
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” Mark Twain
• “When nothing in your life matters more than your own success you’ll likely have nothing in your life but your own success”  Steve Keating
• “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” John F. Kennedy
• “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” Jim Watkins
• “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
• “Be the change you want to see in the world”. Mahatma Gandhi
• “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together” Vincent Van Gogh
• “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others” Pericles
• “Make things that you believe in happen” Me