Kevin Costner Quotes

I realize it's possible in ways both large or small to make a difference in someone's life.

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.

I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life.

First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!

You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly important in life' and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody's life - it has an impact.

I can see that I can be a role model.

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

One person of integrity can make a difference.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.

You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.