80 Unfit Quotes

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Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates

It is better to be a hundred percent healthy and eighty percent fit than a hundred percent fit and eighty percent healthy. — Alexi Pappas

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. — Joseph Pilates

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field. — Icelandic Proverbs

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. — Proverbs

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. — Socrates

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. — Socrates

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. — Lilith Saintcrow

Fitness in four words: Move yourself and objects. — Michael Easter

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else. — Phil McGraw

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit. — Carl Linnaeus

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health. — Manly Hall

When you find yourself in an unhealthy environment, it's next to impossible to be healthy yourself. — Will Bulsiewicz

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Short Unfit Quotes

  • Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass
  • There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. — Franz Kafka
  • The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
  • The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else. — Chris Rose
  • Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office. — James David Vance
  • Birth control is nothing more or less than...weeding out the unfit. — Margaret Sanger
  • More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control. — Margaret Sanger
  • He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. — Seneca The Elder
  • Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. — George Washington
  • Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds. — Tip O'Neill

Unsuitable Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. — Marcus Aurelius

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind. — Renata Adler

What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein. — Aleister Crowley

I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today. — Hugo Black

To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him. — Maxim Gorky

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. — Voltaire

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. — Charles Dickens

By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy. — Richelle Mead

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More Unfit Quotes

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. — Charles Schumer

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right. — H. L. Mencken

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote. — Warren G. Harding

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides. — Rachel Carson

Shamans are not evolutionarily unfit. Shamans are not leaving fewer copies of their genes. These are some of the most powerful, honored members of society. This is where the selection is coming from. … In order to have a couple of shamans on hand in your group, you're willing to put up with the occasional third cousin who's schizophrenic. — Robert M. Sapolsky

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve. — Anne Bonny

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. — Salvador Dali

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. — Lysander Spooner

We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state. — Antisthenes

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. — Eric Hoffer

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. — Joseph Conrad

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office. — Fabius Maximus

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. — James Allen

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. — John Harvey Kellogg

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. — Lyndon B. Johnson

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. — Alexander Maclaren

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. — Lord Byron

An angry man is unfit to pray. — Nachman of Breslov

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit. — Felix Riesenberg

According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already. — Sayings

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. — Eugene V. Debs

Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives. — Margaret Sanger

Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods. — Margaret Sanger

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. — William Wordsworth

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit. — Jamie Redknapp

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities. — Eric Hoffer

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. — Thomas Jefferson

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. — Charles Babbage

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power. — John Adams

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that. — Vivian Gornick

... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. — John Dryden

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