Ought Quotes
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace
Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.
People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.