Ought Quotes

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

It would seem that unless we see through and beyond the physical, we shall not even see the physical as we ought to see it: as the very vehicle for the glory of God

The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.