Ought Quotes

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

There are some benefits [that illegal aliens] clearly ought not have...[including] health benefits and welfare benefits and others that serve as a magnet attracting people here from other countries.

If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day.

There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.