Ought Quotes

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.

Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It’s like being in a family.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Everybody ought to relish profitability.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the bounds of censorship.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.