Tom Cruise Quotes

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

We are not about creating a Forrest dynasty, we're about helping others.

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.

My great-grandfather started in the coal mines, and my great grandmother made 10 pounds of bread every Saturday morning that we delivered to the neighbors. It was always about giving back. These kinds of things drive me to make a difference.

You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

Working with Operation Smile is a completely life-altering experience. It is truly inspiring to be a part of something with so many unique individuals who come together for the greater good of helping others.

If God has given me this many large blessings in such little time, why not help the people that need it?

I just do what I can do to be one of the people who make a difference.

There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found in the Bible. And as we look at problems, maybe we're getting away from those values. And in my little small way, I want to encourage people to get back into those values.

Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's fellow man is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.

When you reach out to others in need, when you reach out to the world, you really do have a satisfying life by helping others.

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives.

I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.