About this quote

Confidence in what you believe rarely depends on how many people agree with you. When a conviction is genuine, you can act on it even with no one beside you; the urge to gather a crowd first often masks a quiet doubt about the cause itself.

When to use it

• Being the only person in a meeting to flag an ethics problem no one else wants to name.
• A student who won't join classmates in mocking a newcomer, even standing alone in it.
• Reporting a safety violation at work while every coworker is looking the other way.