Ought Quotes

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

He is cautious. He ought to be. But he is NOT slow. Lee is a phenomenon. He is the only man whom I would follow blindfolded.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

The minute you make a record because you think somebody's going to play it on the radio is the minute you ought to quit.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.