Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.
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Quotes tagged ‘Conviction’
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it
Have conviction in what you are doing.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
Leadership implies a strong faith or belief in something.
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The painful realization came that he did not feel as guilty even about the murder as he felt about his betrayal of his calling.