Ralph Nader Quotes

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

We are one and the same. Our hearts beat as one. If we put our hearts into it - the fashion industry, any industry - our lives will be changed in the process, and the world will be changed as well.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.

It's not enough to have good thoughts for the world. You must get out there! It is also really important that each person realise their own worth. If you don't think you're good enough, how can you turn around and help save the world?

Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

Information without execution is poverty.

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

If you put your faith in yourself and your abilities, intellect and dreams, then your foundation is only as strong as you are.

Escape your situation through your mind and your actions.

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Life is a dance between making it happen and letting it happen.

Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.