Sentence examples for confident and optimistic from inspiring English sources

"Bush was confident and optimistic, not negative.

Still, U.S. women are not feeling confident and optimistic.

Perowne, who is in his late forties, is confident and optimistic.

"I come out of the court positive, confident and optimistic," he said, thanking supporters.

The company said in a statement that it was "confident" and "optimistic" about its prospects.

Those who approached the negotiation as a challenge also felt less fearful and more confident and optimistic than threatened negotiators.

Thus, the despairing attitude that Hume famously expresses in the conclusion to Book One of the Treatise, as the consequence of his epistemological inquiry, while it clashes with the self-confident and optimistic attitude we associate with the Enlightenment, in fact reflects an essential possibility in a distinctive Enlightenment problematic regarding authority in belief.

Both are supremely self-confident and optimistic, obsessively hard-working, skilled in personal relations, yet ready to buck convention.

And the late David Martin, of the London School of Economics, demonstrated in his comprehensive studies of Pentecostalism in Latin America that church-goers who believe in God-given prosperity are more autonomous, economically responsible, self-confident, and optimistic about life outcomes than their Mainline Protestant and Catholic counterparts.

It is humble and self-critical, but also confident, joyful and optimistic.

We need to join forces (all 78 million of us!) to find ways to feel confident, proud and optimistic as we reach 65 in a culture pushing us in the opposite direction.