Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential. — Ellen Goodman
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains… — Miguel de Cervantes
I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we… — Joseph Stilwell
Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present. — George Washington
A liar ought to have a good memory. — Quintilian
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. — James A. Michener
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it. — Unknown Author
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the… — George Orwell
One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting. — Jimmy Demaret
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the… — Samuel Adams
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete… — Alexander Hamilton
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? — Immanuel Kant
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not… — George Washington
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame… — Blaise Pascal
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought,… — William Cobbett
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,… — Hippocrates
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're… — Tom Peters
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought… — Woodrow Wilson
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to… — Charles Caleb Colton

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