Top 435 Mentality Quotes

I’m not the type of guy to back down from anybody. I think if you want to fight in the octagon you have to have that mentality.
Stephen Thompson
Not everyone gets to be a winner unless they choose to be. Winning is a mentality.
Valentin Chmerkovskiy
A lot of people have been rejected and they just give up. I have never had that mentality.
Danny Ings
Mbappe? He has clear ideas. We have seen him grow incredibly day after day. He has the right mentality to establish himself at the top without getting lost along the way.
Marco Verratti
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
Sebastian Coe
I don’t think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don’t care about the United States. They do.
Kit Bond
Californian artists are kind of willing to push the lim

Californian artists are kind of willing to push the limits a little bit further just because that’s kind of our mentality in that state.
Brett Young
I think lots of men have an ostrich-like mentality regarding their health and general appearance. There is always tomorrow.
Dave Myers
I think that a lot of battle rappers have a difficult time making songs because they don’t know how to do a song format. They’re so stuck in that whole battle rap mentality that really all they want to do is just kick rhymes.
Big Daddy Kane
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
John Chamberlain
I still have that forward’s mentality that when I have the chances, it just ticks me off if I can’t put it in.
Kelley O’Hara
I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.
Aleister Black
I wasn’t good at football when I was young but I made myself get good at football because of my mentality.
Anthony Yarde
In the ’70s and ’80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn’t important.
Les Wexner
You create a big-club mentality with the trust of the players, the trust that the team will get results, and then, when results are not good, the trust to continue with your idea.
Manuel Pellegrini
I approach life with a ‘jump’ sort of mentality, although I wasn’t raised to take crazy risks. I was raised to be a crazy hard worker. It seems to be a pretty good match of qualities.
Christina Tosi
There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you’re a failure or you’re a success. That mentality is wild.
Javier Bardem
Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.
George Kittle
It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the ‘Let’s just break through this wall and see what’s on the other side’ mentality.
Harper Reed
There is a mentality that if you’re a long time AMDer, that we’re x86: we know what we’re doing, and it’s just about building better x86 devices.
Lisa Su
I feel like it’s just a mindset, a mentality. Whether you’re starting or coming off the bench, I feel like my game is very versatile, so I can do both things.
Caris LeVert
I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
Paul Giamatti
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed.
George Soros
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.
Ismail Kadare
In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.
Rafael Benitez
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.
Melanie Fiona
Are we truly being our sisters’ keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren’t responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.
Grace Gealey
What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.
Jeffrey C. Hall
Most of us don’t think forwarding a racist joke or speaking in an insulting ‘comedic’ accent is appropriate at the workplace. Unfortunately, for those raised in the toxic culture of conservatism, the sort of mentality that leads government employees to do those things is widespread.
Alex Pareene
Our society has a mentality that elderly people pass on their wealth to their son or immediate relatives, and I think we all do it. It’s a part of nature and is an exaggerated topic.
Ram Gopal Varma
My motto is I’m going to go out and work every day no matter who is here. It’s a mentality that I always play with since I’ve been playing football.
DeAndre Hopkins
I try not to buy into that whole, crazy ‘you are what you drive’ mentality here, but I wouldn’t want to be seen in a Ford Fiesta – you know what I mean?
Patty Jenkins
Just blocking noise out and doing something you love and enjoying it and having fun with it. It’s kind of made my mentality in me staying calmer much better.
Kyle Larson
As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that’s what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I’m forever thankful.
D’Angelo Russell
We don’t have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.
Fab Moretti
Indian men need to break the typical mentality. I’ve lived abroad and now that I’m here, I see a huge difference.
Madhura Naik
When a child’s mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, ‘Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.’
Derek Walcott
When you need to make a play, you've got to have that m

When you need to make a play, you’ve got to have that mentality that you’re going to get it done.
Andy Dalton
I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don’t want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I want them to have a good understanding of the different sections of society.
Guy Sebastian
We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
Vivienne Westwood
Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly – because it’s sort of like you’re supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That’s a generalization; that’s what the mentality has been.
Susan Kelechi Watson
I’m going in with the mentality that I’m going to win. If you don’t go in there thinking that, you’ve already beat yourself.
Mickie James
I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don’t know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I’m the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it – sometimes in Europe, it’s not always what you need to do.
Thierry Henry
I want to give some advice; to win you need champions who are used to winning and who have the winning mentality.
David Trezeguet
You need to go with that mentality and play the game. No pressure. Yes, you need to do something. But it’s just a game.
Nikola Jokic
Everyone talks about, ‘Get your foot in the door,’ but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
Freddie Wong
The ‘copy, paste’ mentality of some investors and entrepreneurs – be careful of that. Do something that is unique to you, not because someone else’s journey is mirroring it.
Shervin Pishevar
If you’re raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.
Robert Downey, Jr.
I’ll always have a winning mentality in me, and I want to transmit that. I equally feel what the players are feeling and I know them as men.
Franck Ribery
At Manchester United, we play to win. That’s my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.
Romelu Lukaku
Literary readings aren’t going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.
Lynn Coady
I set the bar high, and I’ll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it’s a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.
Baker Mayfield
I’ve always liked Deron Williams because has the same mentality as me.
Gary Payton
Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence.
John le Carre
The industry is in an alarming condition. And we only have ourselves to blame. If one thriller runs, we all run to make thrillers. What about the dozen thrillers that flopped before that? More than the herd mentality it is the ostrich mentality.
Mahesh Manjrekar
If you’re not getting work, make your own work. I think that’s a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I’d been taught.
Edward Ruscha
Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That’s the antithesis of the artist mentality.
Maren Morris
I’ve always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted to embarrass my parents.
Derek Jeter