Ought Quotes

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.

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

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

It ought to be realized by all dog owners that obesity shortens a dog's life quite considerably, a life which is much too short anyhow.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

No job is beneath you. You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.