Ralph Nader Quotes

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Everybody has some responsibility. The point is, how are we going to fix it? And you don't fix it simply by blaming the other guy, or blaming the past.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

The real risk is doing nothing.

If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't you do something about it?', when you could have done.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.