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“Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.”

Earth Science Humanity Generations Tree Ought Forests Exhausted Consumed Posterity Orchard Forests And Trees Trustees Arbor Day

Author:Julius Sterling Morton

“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”

Knows Love Mind Wells Littles Long Play Might Today Wanted Lasts Bits Love You Tears Serious Months Ought Terrible Little Bit Argument Vacation Time Love

Author:Walter Cronkite

“I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.”

Thinking Men Love Important Love You Ought Quitting More Time End Times Spend Time Surveys

Author:Walter Cronkite

“It is to those who have the most need of us that we ought to show our love more especially.”

Needs Shows Ought Saint Our Love Serving Others

Book:The Spiritual Conferences

Source: The Spiritual Conferences

“I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.”

Thinking Ought Periods Gay Treated

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.”

Book Philosophy Government Science Interesting Fiction History Written Subjects Ought Accounts Prose Verses Good Book Statesmen Science And Philosophy Interesting Book

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.”

Mind Believe Done I Believe Records One Thing Ought Brilliant Outstanding Famous Inspirational

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.”

Church Ought Authority All Things Customs Catholicism Jealously Great Author

Book:The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”

Ifs Looks Ought Behavior Misbehaving

Author:Orson Welles

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

“Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger.”

Men Looks Action Fighting Poor Danger He Man Ought Battle Criticism Function Stress Mere Critics Deeds Substitutes Indispensable Usefulness Subordinates Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'”

Ifs Facts Government America Political Nations Party Moral Watches Ought Members Jokes Died Democrat Organized Reports Delusion Political Parties Great Nations Tombstone Moral Leadership

Author:Will Rogers

“The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.”

World Past Law Humanity Term Moral Bears Ought Fragments

Author:Edgar Quinet

“No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.”

Nations Duty Ought Police Navy

Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

“Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy , throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Hard Play Ought Sick Lovely Hungry Throwing Oregon Demure Hussies

Author:Tom McCall

“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.”

“Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?”

Done Eye Past Fall Left Sleep Ought One Day Undone Transactions Thrice Rectitude

Author:Pythagoras

“The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.”

“Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.”

Knows Humans Self Growth Human Beings Ought Bigger Personal Growth Dare Best Self

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.”

Chance Ought Ill

Book:Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

Source: Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

“Hiking. I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains...the se mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”

People Land Ought Holy Mountain Hiking Pilgrimage Hiking In The Mountains Holy Land

Author:John Muir

“Hiking - I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, "A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them."”

“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”

People Knows Want Needs Ought Profession Journalism Citizenship

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

Men Self Social Environment Ought Ideals Environmental Teamwork Simple Living Interdependence Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Being Sad Social Being

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”

Ifs Men World Writing Doe Done He Man Ought Mere Critics Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.”

Ifs Soul Christian Christ Depends Ought Deeds My Soul Orthodox Commandments Orthodox Christian

Author:Saint Basil

“The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?”

Ifs Said Christian Turns Evil Speak Behinds Objects Brother Ought Orthodox Say Anything Slander

Author:Saint Basil

“No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?”

Thinking Should Christian Given Masters Ought Slave Orthodox Orthodox Christian Brethren Cfs

Author:Saint Basil

“...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this take away from the dignity of this doctrine, for although the argument from authority based on human reason is the weakest, yet the argument from authority based on divine revelation is the strongest.”

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.”

Ifs America Nations Moral Ought Died Usa Delusion United States Of America Great Nations Tombstone Moral Leadership

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.”

Crime Ought Editors Hung Dullness

Book:Editor in Politics

Source: Editor in Politics

“Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.”

States Government America Ought Taxes Towns Sells Taxation

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.”

Thinking Order Ought Victory Defeat Obtaining

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”

Men Needs Given Ought Command Consideration

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.”

Should Believe Ends States Law Nations Industry Ought Standards Bases Paid Determine Various Minimum Wages Sanctions Minimum Wage Massachusetts Living Wage

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.”

Men Needs Has Beens Joy Heaven Poor Lord He Man Ought One Day This Life Generous Our Lord Orphan Those In Need Stingy Widows And Orphans

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes America Powerful Attention Gone Sky Masters Ought Authority Bird Bills Congress Symbols Range Ran Soar Eagles Herds Surveys Selected Buffalo

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist that ambition. Sometimes our folks get a little impatient. Sometimes they rattle their rockets some, and they bluff about their bombs. But we are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”

Littles Sometimes Helping Home Faces Boys Ought Ambition Folks China Miles Bombs Aggressive Ambitious Asia Asian Rockets Impatient Miles Away Away From Home Bluffs

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.”

God Suffering Fate Air Bears Ought Void Rail

Book:New poems

Source: New poems

“We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.”

Men Ought Suicide Quitting Command Posts Permission

Author:Pythagoras

“Just been talking today out here to all the Senators investigating these stock swindles and overcapitalizations. There has been hundreds of millions lost. There ought to be some form of guardianship for people that buy all this junk. Education won't do it. The buyers are the ones we have educated up till they are just smart enough to fall for everything that comes along.”

People Has Beens Enough Today Form Fall Lost Business Talking Millions Ought Smart Educated Senators Junk Buyers Investigating Guardianship

Author:Will Rogers

“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'”

Thinking Long Ideas Home Running Sound President Walks Business Cases Fire Plans Building Ought Work Out Ems Beneficial Exit New Home Hoover

Author:Will Rogers

“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.”

People Thinking Men Matter Seems Sex Can Do Results Effort Greater Ought Connected Invention Damage Puzzles

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.”

Looks Hands Ought Politician Drivers Foresight

Book:How to be funny

Source: How to be funny

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

People Ifs Two Ends Christian Speak Growth Views Deals Study Grace Four Ready Ought Ears Prepared Passing Passings Realms Heavenly Passages Be Prepared Coins Passing It

Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.”

Thinking Way Should Moments Motivational Judging Ought Involved Letting Go Projects Garden Busy Pursuit Tendencies Aspiration Gossip Mind Your Own Business

Author:Wayne Dyer

“You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.”

Rights Media Ought Constitution Bills Guarantees Ashamed Provision Bill Of Rights Technicalities

Author:William J. Brennan

“The farmer and the farm, like "the environment," are looked upon, for example, as means to offset trade deficits. The farm is a place where we can externalize costs. The cost of pesticides to the farmer and the cost of the pesticides to the soil and groundwater are regarded similarly by the public: "a serious problem that something ought to be done about." But the problem is more fundamental than this glib statement would indicate, for soil pollution is an expense of production. So are pesticides and nitrates in our farm wells. So is the loss of farmers from the land.”

Wells Mean Done Problem Loss Environment Land Example Serious Ought Cost Fundamentals Trade Productions Statements Soil Expenses Farms Farmers Pollution Deficit Pesticides Groundwater

Author:Wes Jackson

“Do not scrutinize so closely whether you are doing much or little, ill or well, so long as what you do is not sinful and that you are heartily seeking to do everything for God. Try as far as you can to do everything well, but when it is done, do not think about it. Try, rather, to think of what is to be done next. Go on simply in the Lord's way, and do not torment yourself. We ought to hate our faults, but with a quiet, calm hatred; not pettishly and anxiously.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells Littles Long Done Hate Next Lord Goes On Ought Quiet Hatred Faults Calm Ill Seeking Torment Discipleship Scrutinize

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them. Holiday shoppers have been whipped into a frenzy by months of holiday advertisements, and they will buy anything small enough to stuff into a shopping bag. If your children object to being tied, threaten to take them to see Santa Claus; that ought to shut them up.”

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