Ought Quotes

The most happy ought to wish for death.

— Seneca the Younger

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

— E. M. Forster

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

— Dorothy Parker

There ought to be limits to freedom.

— George W. Bush

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

— Bertrand Russell

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

— Chuck Grassley

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

— Henry George Bohn

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

— Nancy Sinatra

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

— Germaine Greer

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

— Russell D. Moore

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

— John Adams

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

— Pope Gregory I

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

— Matt Lucas

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

— Octavia Butler

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

— Alexander Hamilton

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is…

— Jimmy Page

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what…

— David Allen

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought…

— Emma Goldman

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,…

— Abraham Coles

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That…

— Benjamin Franklin

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how…

— Daniel Quinn

Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to…

— Reid Hoffman

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

— Francis Bacon

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in…

— Seneca the Younger

You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

Living in the now is freedom from all problems connected with time. You ought to remember that sentence, you ought to memorize…

— Vernon Howard

We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards…

— Ugo Cavallero

Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only…

— Will Rogers

Never allow the cross to lose it’s centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth…

— Brandon Cox

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded…

— Socrates

Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that…

— Alex Toth

I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look…

— Walter Scott

First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be…

— Patrick Henry

The cases involving the question of whether U.S. courts should be open to claims of international human rights violations brought by foreign…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for…

— Carl Sagan

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only…

— Adam Smith

People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think…

— Rae Foley

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so…

— Niccolo Machiavelli