Ought Quotes

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but Him, or if we love anything else, we must love it only for His sake.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.