Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with… — Byron Dorgan
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such… — Bertrand Russell
I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and… — Heber J. Grant
Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.… — Carl Jung
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it… — Eliot Spitzer
But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly… — Elisabeth Elliot
God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing… — George Muller
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord. — George Muller
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my… — George Muller
There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives. — Bear Bryant
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are. — Mark Epstein
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how… — Christian Lous Lange
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe… — Tom Robbins
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We… — Unknown Author
Power ought to serve as a check to power. — Baron de Montesquieu
I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces — Jackie Robinson
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought… — George Washington
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever… — Seneca the Younger
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. — Henry Ward Beecher
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent… — Theophile Gautier
There ought to be limits to freedom. — George W. Bush
Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil… — Martin Luther

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