Best ought & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“We ought to consider the end in everything.”

Ends Ought

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.”

People Ifs Needs Ends Force Ought Ego Brushes

Author:Robert Genn

“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

“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

“The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.”

Ends Ought Weary Passengers

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.”

Ends Wanted Struggle Ought Limits Retirement

Author:Horace

“There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.”

Mind Ends Action Goal Differences Results Ought Finals Satisfaction Supreme Contentment Our Actions Possessing

Author:Rene Descartes

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.”

Mean Ends Moments Forget Moral Return Ought Eternal Caught Doctrine Motivated Caught Up Moments Of Life

Author:Georges Bataille

“It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.”

Ends Today Evil Months Ought Tomorrow Accounts Lazy Misfortunes Laziness Delay Inclination My Future Procrastinating Mortification Future Life

Author:Washington Allston

“I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.”

People Thinking Ends Together Jobs Courses Ought Internet Very Good Articles Closest Replaced Good Job

Author:Jon Postel

“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”

Ifs Men Feels Soul Ends Force Attention Grace Duty Ought Habit Office Sake Earnest Persevere God's Grace Kindliness

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.”

Men Mean Ends Shows Conditions Ought Sorrow Miserable Affliction Removal

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.”

Should Ends States Body Law Community Principles Ought Office Organization Constitution Determine Relative Governing Offenders Magistrates

Book:Aristotle

Source: Aristotle

“The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.”

People Should Ends Language Ought Holy Should Have Tongue Believer Scripture Ghost Doctrine Familiar Holy Ghost

Author:John Wycliffe

“Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.”

Thinking Men Made Ends Whole Order Human Nature Duty Ought Dignity Merit Thoughtful

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.”

Ends Order House Pleasure Effects Produce Ought Opera Machinery

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.”

Men Wells Stills Ends Values Week Ought Income Maximum

Author:Sir John Richard Hicks

“The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.”

People Ends Sometimes Would Be Together Law Justice Liberty Impossible Ought Conversation Raises Trade Meetings Consistent Conspiracy Assembly Hinder Facilitate Diversion Merriment Assembling

Author:Adam Smith

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.”

Men Years Ends Forever Five Heard Century Ought Hundred Rapture

Author:John Adams

“I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.”

People Knows Ends Hard Done Character Stories Bigs Would Be Past Film Order Cases Cutting Ought Speech Caring Checks Representatives Edits Not Caring

Author:Jeff Bridges

“At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.”

Knows World Looks Ends Able Our Lives Ought Focused Over It Better Place Deathbed

Author:Joe Ehrmann

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“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 ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Ends Might Humanity Can Do Justice Dangerous Ought Cost Safe Devil Evidence Absolutes Sake Guides Trials Impulse Agreement Finding Yourself Dangerous Things Treacherous

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection”

Art Ends Artist Ought Perfection Overcoming Impatience Good Art Good Artist

Author:Michelangelo

“Busy is good, isn't it? Busy means we're hard at it, achieving our ends or "goals." Haven't had time to stop, or look around or think. That's considered the sign of a life well lived ... Suppose, though, you're not sure that what you're doing is at all worthwhile. Suppose you blundered into it over a spoonful of lime pickle. It's easy, it pays quite well. But really it's a distraction. It stops you thinking about what you ought to be doing.”

Thinking Wells Looks Mean Ends Hard Easy Goal Pay Achieve Havens Ought Busy Not Sure Distraction Worthwhile Pickles Life Well Lived Limes

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.”

Ifs Knows Men Ends Cities Darkness Journey Humility Ought Perfection Salvation Who You Are Work Out Where You Are Another Man Sanctity

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.”

Ends Government Liberty Ought Direct

Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries

“The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.”

Ends Understanding Knowing Ought Discovery

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.”

Ends Cases Mankind Effects Objects Ought Glory Guilt Criminals Pursuit Unjust Beneficial Prerogative Mischievous True Or False

Book:Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...

Source: Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...

“We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these big final ends to tell us what we ought to do.”

Ends Use Bigs Action Generations Effects Century Ought Finals Reasoning Collectives Our Actions Collective Action

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.”

May Ends Purpose Interest Ought Productions Producers Consumers Sole Consumption Promoting Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

Ifs Life Ends Fun Ought Garden Green Knees The End Of The Day Funny Life Gardening And God

Author:Bill Watterson

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

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