Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

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… — John Wooden
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are… — Jamaica Kincaid
Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men. — Thomas a Kempis
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to… — Benjamin Franklin
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be — Aldous Huxley
Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul. — Socrates
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have… — Mark Twain
Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of the… — David Keirsey
Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory,… — Martin Luther
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought… — Dick Murphy
That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire.… — Swami Vivekananda
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of… — Thelma Ritter
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a… — Pearl S. Buck
Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. — Harry Crews
Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,… — Noam Chomsky
If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out.… — Alan Watts
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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… — Lewis Carroll
Theoretically, the actor ought to be more sound in mind and body than other people, since he learns to understand the psychological problems of human… — Uta Hagen
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to… — John Calvin
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all… — Thomas Carlyle
The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth

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