Fitting Quotes

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

  Francis of Assisi

  God, Faith, Inspiration

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• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, People, Standing Out

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

  Mitt Romney

  Contempt, Private Sector

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• You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

  R. J. Palacio

  Children, Love Yourself, Life Is Good

  "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Country, Sweet

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Long, People

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

  Morgan Brittany

  Hollywood, Crowds, Odd

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• I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

  Rumer Willis

  Thinking, Awkward, Feelings

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Mind, Looks

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.859, Wordsworth Editions

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• In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Busy, Invisible

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter”, p.50, Penguin

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• I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

  Wil Wheaton

  Childhood, Way, Different

  "Wil Wheaton" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2002.

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• The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

  Simon Sinek

  Important, Desire, Like You

  "Fitting In: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Lonely, Thinking

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• In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

  Shirley Manson

  People, Armor, Nerves

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• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

  Quintilian

  Memories, Liars, Lying

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 485-87, IV. 2. 91, 1922.

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• Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

  Clare Balding

  Boring, Whole Life, Whole

  "Clare Balding: 'This has been the year of my life'". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

  Michael Sam

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Courage

  "The 10 Most Emotional Moments in ESPYs History, From Caitlyn Jenner to Jim Valvano" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

  Berry Gordy

  Change, Long, Judging

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• Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Use, Defining

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• If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith.

  DeVon Franklin

  God, Faith, Religious

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

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dog, Peace, War

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

  Sarah Ruhl

  Stars, Lying, Sadness

  Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”

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