Quotes about fitness
A collection of quotes on the topic of fit, fitness, doing, likeness.
Quotes about fitness

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Variant: If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: Robert Baden-Powell: Scouting for Boys, The Original

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

Source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009), p.22

“We don't fit in well 'cause we are just ourselves”
Song Beautiful People
Source: The Songlines

“Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.”
Me & Rumi (2004)

Or, comme il y a une infinité d'univers possibles dans les idées de Dieu, et qu'il n'en peut exister qu'un seul, il faut qu'il y ait une raison suffisante du choix de Dieu qui le détermine à l'un plutôt qu'à l'autre. Et cette raison ne peut se trouver que dans la convenance, dans les degrés de perfection que ces mondes contiennent, chaque possible ayant droit de prétendre à l'existence à mesure de la perfection qu'il enveloppe.
La monadologie (53 & 54).
The Monadology (1714)

“God, who has given me so many Kingdoms to govern, has not given me a son fit to govern them.”
David Maland, Europe in the seventeenth century (1966), p. 207.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640

“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”

about his work as a particle physicist, at the Fermilab History and Archives Project: Benjamin Lee comments on HEP discoveries http://history.fnal.gov/significant_staff.html#Benjamin_Lee (May, 1976).

letter to the German rulers (1524), as quoted in The History of Compulsory Education in New England, John William Perrin, 1896

Las Vegas CityLife, August 9, 2007 http://www.lvcitylife.com/articles/2007/08/10/ae/stage/iq_15893857.txt
Interviews, Print Interviews

“Man keeps looking for a truth to fit his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.”
[Adelaide Bry, 1976, est, 60 Hours that Transform Your Life, New York, Avon, 17]
Attributed

Passing Strange and Wonderful: Aesthetics, Nature, and Culture, ch. 10 (1993).

Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 80

“I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 579.
‘Suffering and Speech’ in Catherine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin (eds) In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings.

"We are Power" speech (1980)

Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert.
In one of his memoranda to Pope Clement V from the summer of 1306.

I-II, q. 28, art. 5
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Context: it is to be observed that four proximate effects may be ascribed to love: viz. melting, enjoyment, languor, and fervor. Of these the first is "melting," which is opposed to freezing. For things that are frozen, are closely bound together, so as to be hard to pierce. But it belongs to love that the appetite is fitted to receive the good which is loved, inasmuch as the object loved is in the lover... Consequently the freezing or hardening of the heart is a disposition incompatible with love: while melting denotes a softening of the heart, whereby the heart shows itself to be ready for the entrance of the beloved.

Source: On the subject “alternate facts”. Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.

Source: The Writing of Thomas Paine

“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”

Source: Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964), p. 82

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69

“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women.”

“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”

"Fear, the Foundation of Religion"
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Context: Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing – fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hears can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317.

Cited in: Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer, Vikas Krishna (2011) The Science of Service Systems. p. 274.
1970s, Towards a System of Systems Concepts, 1971

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

1910s, California's Policies Proclaimed (Feb. 21, 1911)

Remarks at Springfield, Illinois (20 November 1860) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:214?rgn=div1;view=fulltext; published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 142
1860s

1850s, The House Divided speech (1858)

I will continue to support every effort to restore that protection including the Hyde-Jepsen respect life bill. I've asked for your all-out commitment, for the mighty power of your prayers, so that together we can convince our fellow countrymen that America should, can, and will preserve God's greatest gift.
Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters (30 January 1984) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40394 · YouTube - Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Religious Broadcasters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Elph9CfsKs
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)

1920s, Review of The Meaning of Meaning (1926)

Excerpt from Beyond the Pale by Nicholas Mosley.

Interview with Nathan Gardels http://www.digitalnpq.org/archive/2009_fall_2010_winter/04_kolakowski.html (1991)

Query 18
Opticks (1704)

1860s, Second Inaugural Address (1865)

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Speech before the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island (June 1897), reported in "Washington’s Forgotten Maxim", American Ideals (1926), vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed., chapter 12, p. 198
1890s

Ed Caesar (February 21, 2005) "Think this is a laugh? You must be joking", The Independent.

“A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.”
Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin
Wilhelm Tell (1803)

The Quest for a True Humanity
I Write What I Like (1978)

“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God… or the Devil.”
Captain Vere
Billy Budd (1962)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)

Source: The rise of the western world, 1973, p. vii, Preface

Statements (c. December 1907), in Mark Twain In Eruption : Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men And Events (1940) edited by Bernard Augustine De Voto

Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in A Conspiracy So Immense (2005) by David M. Oshinsky

However, that wouldn't work in Poland or New York City, where the Jews are of an inferior strain, & so numerous that they would essentially modify the physical type.
Letter to Natalie H. Wooley (22 November 1934), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 77
Non-Fiction, Letters