99 Mission Trip Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

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99 Mission Trip Quotes to Inspire and Motivate

Embarking on a mission trip is a deeply rewarding experience, a journey of service and self-discovery. Whether you're a seasoned missionary or preparing for your first trip, the right words can ignite your passion and provide guidance along the way. This collection of 99 mission trip quotes offers inspiration, motivation, and a renewed sense of purpose as you prepare to serve others. These quotes are drawn from various sources, including religious texts, historical figures, and modern-day missionaries, reflecting the diverse perspectives within the mission field.

Inspirational Quotes for Mission Trips

1. "The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." – Eleanor Roosevelt

2. "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." – Mother Teresa

3. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi

4. "The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion." – Paulo Coelho

5. "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" – Matthew 16:26 (NIV)

6. "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." – Amelia Earhart

7. "The smallest act of service is far greater than the greatest act of intention." – Unknown

8. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." – Winston Churchill

9. "It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act." – The Dalai Lama

10. "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." – Muhammad Ali

Quotes About the Impact of Mission Trips

11. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller

12. "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness." – Arthur Schopenhauer

13. "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." – Albert Schweitzer

14. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke

15. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." – George Bernard Shaw

16. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln

17. "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." – Barack Obama

18. "The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." – Sarah Ban Breathnach

19. "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." – Robert Louis Stevenson

20. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela

Quotes on Finding Purpose on a Mission Trip

21. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." – Oprah Winfrey

22. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

23. "Believe you can and you’re halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

24. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

25. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua Marine

26. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." – Jimmy Johnson

28. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

29. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." – George Eliot

30. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller

Quotes about Serving Others on a Mission Trip

31. "The best mirror is an old friend." – George Herbert

32. "The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better." – Robert F. Kennedy

33. "Helping others is the pathway to finding happiness within ourselves." - Unknown

34. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." – Jane Goodall

35. "It's not what you do for your country, it's what your country does for you." – Unknown

36. "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." – William James

37. "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." – Albert Pike

38. "The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." – Helen Keller

39. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." – Friedrich Nietzsche

40. "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." – Hubert Humphrey

Overcoming Challenges on a Mission Trip

41. "The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities." – James Allen

42. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

43. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu

44. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'" – Mary Anne Radmacher

45. "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." – Unknown

46. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." – Helen Keller

47. "The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." – Joel Brown

48. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." – Bernice Johnson Reagon

50. "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." – Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflecting on Your Mission Trip Experience

51. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi

52. "The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self." – Walt Whitman

53. "What lies behind us and what lies in front of us, pales in comparison to what lies inside us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. "What the world needs is not critics, but creators; not cynics, but believers; not mourners, but healers." – James Bryant Conant

55. "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it's expressed in how one lives." – Mahatma Gandhi

56. "The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha

57. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." – Robert Frost

58. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon

59. "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." – Oprah Winfrey

60. "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Mission Trip Quotes Focusing on Faith and Belief

61. "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." – Martin Luther King Jr.

62. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return." – Moulin Rouge! (movie quote)

63. "Faith is believing in something that you can't see, and the reward of that faith is seeing what you believe in." – Unknown

64. "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." – Rabindranath Tagore

65. "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." – Unknown

66. "Faith is not the absence of doubt, but the ability to move forward despite doubt." – Unknown

67. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." – Hebrews 11:1 (KJV)

68. "Keep your faith; keep your hope; keep your charity. The world needs it." – Mother Teresa

69. "Let your faith be bigger than your fear." – Unknown

70. "Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the uncertainty of life." – Corrie ten Boom

Quotes About the Importance of Prayer on a Mission Trip

71. "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul." – Mother Teresa

72. "The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." – James 5:16 (NIV)

73. "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." – Samuel Johnson

74. "Prayer is a conversation with God; sometimes he talks, sometimes he listens." – Unknown

75. "Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed." – Samuel Johnson

76. "Be still, and know that I am God." – Psalm 46:10 (NIV)

77. "Seek the Lord while he can be found; call on him while he is near." – Isaiah 55:6 (NIV)

78. "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." – Psalm 37:4 (NIV)

79. "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." – Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

80. "The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing." – Psalm 23:1 (NIV)

Quotes About Love and Compassion on Mission Trips

81. “Love is not a feeling, it’s a choice. It is the decision to be kind, forgiving, and patient.” – Unknown

82. “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

83. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama XIV

84. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

85. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

86. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” – Alice Walker

87. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

88. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde

89. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

90. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV)

Motivational Quotes for Mission Trip Participants

91. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

92. “Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua Marine

93. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” – Robert F. Kennedy

94. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

95. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

96. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." – Jane Goodall

97. "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu

98. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

99. "The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do." – Sarah Ban Breathnach

This compilation offers a diverse range of inspirational quotes to fuel your mission trip experience. Remember to reflect on these words throughout your journey, embracing the challenges and celebrating the triumphs. May your service be a testament to the power of compassion, faith, and the transformative impact of giving back.