Ought Quotes

The wanting of advice is the sign that the Spirit in you has not yet spoken with the compelling voice that you ought to obey.

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.

Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Some people... some people like cupcakes Exclusively, while myself, I say, There is naught nor ought there be nothing So exalted on the face of god's grey Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Before you organize you ought to analyze and see what the elements of the business are.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the world to me, and I didn't feel this was the way it ought to be used.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Donald Trump ought to realise that being a president is different to being a candidate and that there is a responsibility that comes with the office.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.