Ought Quotes

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

Teaching COBOL ought to be regarded as a criminal act.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.