Inspirational Quote by James Rouse

“What we ought be, we can be.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

— Jeffery Deaver

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we…

— T. S. Eliot

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

— William Pickens

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

— Frank Delaney

I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.

— Daniel Defoe

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is…

— Lenny Bruce

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

— Max Muller