Tom Cruise Quotes

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

Preach in your own house and to your own company

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

Character is the result of two great forces: the initial force which the Creator gave it when He called the man into being; and the force of all the external influence and culture that mold and modify the development of a life.

I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.

I've done everything I can in my life to be the best person I can be, and I can look in the mirror and say that.

I think as soon as we start thinking of ourselves as good people, that's when we start letting ourselves off the hook which is bad. I think we should always be trying to be better but that doesn't mean we want to be good.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.