--- title: "7 Fit Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "7 Fit quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Fit sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-mor_284214.jpg" --- > [Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-morality-your-recognition-of-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-mor_284214.jpg) > [There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-two-principles-on-which-all-men-of-intellectual-integrity/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/ayn-rand-59_accepted_there-are-two-principles-on-which-all-me_1131438.jpg) > [Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/rationalization-is-a-process-of-not-perceiving-reality-but-of/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d8/ayn-rand-59_attempting_rationalization-is-a-process-of-not-perc_1314806.jpg) > [Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/rationalization-is-a-cover-up-a-process-of-providing-one-s-emotions/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8de/ayn-rand-59_attempting_rationalization-is-a-cover-up-a-process_1871262.jpg) > [Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/now-take-a-human-body-why-wouldn-t-you-like-to-see-a-human-body-with/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d8/ayn-rand-59_body_now-take-a-human-body-why-wouldn-t-you-l_2624459.jpg) > [Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it so important - what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-form-has-its-own-meaning-every-man-creates-his-meaning-and-form/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9eb/ayn-rand-59_arithmetic_every-form-has-its-own-meaning-every-man_2935004.jpg) > [Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/because-the-beauty-of-the-human-body-is-that-it-hasn-t-a-single/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/ayn-rand-59_beauty_because-the-beauty-of-the-human-body-is_3167202.jpg) ## Other authors on Fit ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fit/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "7 Fit Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-morality-your-recognition-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-mor_284214.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-mor_284214.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ayn-rand-59_acceptance_productiveness-is-your-acceptance-of-mor_284214.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any discussion, co-operation or movement toward an intellectual Renaissance. . . . 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