"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to……" — Thomas Stearns Eliot
"The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
More Deed Quotes
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses… — Emilie Autumn
- It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush… — Russell Baker
- Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. — Abu Bakr
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who… — Saint Basil
- But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab… — Theodore Bikel
- Honest people don't hide their deeds. — Emily Bronte
- The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. — John Burroughs
- Thought is the parent of the deed. — Thomas Carlyle
- You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday. — Aaliyah
- The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted… — Joseph Campbell
- As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what… — Aberjhani
- In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson