Ought Quotes

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

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.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.