Best You Ought Quotations
263 You Ought quotes by 208 unique authors
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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…
— Helmut Thielicke
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You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it…
— Unknown Author
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God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.
— Billy Graham
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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. We are constantly remarking on the fact that things are done…
— Robert Benchley
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To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's…
— James Dickey
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But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and…
— Birch Bayh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Roy Romer
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When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white.…
— Desmond Tutu
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When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on…
— C.S. Lewis
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You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the…
— Plato
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If men come among you who do NOT preach all the counsel of God, who do NOT preach of Christ, sin, holiness, of ruin, redemption,…
— J C Ryle
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You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
— Jeph Jacques
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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…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go…
— Alan Moore
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Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour…
— Winston Churchill
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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.
— Chris Oyakhilome
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If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the…
— John C. Maxwell
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You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.
— Samuel L. Jackson
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Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can…
— Isaac Asimov
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Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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