Definition of Optimistic

Optimistic

Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.

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Optimistic Quotations

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Steve Jobs

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
Steve Irwin

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
Martha Beck

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Jared Diamond

I am an optimistic lady.
Julie Andrews

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber

It's really an optimistic show. I think most of the people in this country are optimistic, too.
Charles Osgood

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
Lydia Lunch

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.
Rita Dove

I am optimistic about the future of music.
George Crumb

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
Natan Sharansky

I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
Peter Mandelson

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Ahmed Ben Bella

But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
Nicholas D. Kristof

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.
Joel Coen

Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
Ed Miliband

By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
Emilio Estevez

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.
Gijs de Vries

My management tells me, Don't be optimistic, because it's the young people's world now. They want to hear what they want to hear, and you're a classic rocker. I don't know if you're gonna get the play.
Bob Seger

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.
Alberto Gonzales

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg

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Optimistic Translations

optimistic in Dutch is optimistisch
optimistic in German is optimistisch, optimistisch, optimistischen
optimistic in Italian is ottimisvico
optimistic in Spanish is optimista
optimistic in Swedish is optimistisk

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