Ought Quotes

If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others.

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and center of our souls.

Old men ought to be explorers.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

We ought to shout out our thanksgiving as if every war were over; as if there were no more big taxes; as if there were no sickness, no crime.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.