Ralph Nader Quotes

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Practice yourself what you preach.

I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

We must practice what we preach.

I would despise myself if I thought that I was procuring your votes by concealing my opinions, and by avowing one set of principles in one part of the state and a different set in another.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.

I think it's so important to practice what you preach - whether you're into riding cows to work or eating a burger after boxing, just do what you're telling your fans you're doing because you have to be real with them because they look up to you.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, 'Yeah! Burgers are cool!'