A Quote by Abdullah ibn Mubarak

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

Abdullah ibn Mubarak

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Deed Great Intention Made Perhaps Sincere Small

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Abdullah ibn Mubarak
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Born: 726

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime.

Heloise

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Roger Nash Baldwin

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

John Burroughs

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Soman Chainani

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

Pope Gregory I

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

Edwin Muir

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does a good deed only for worldly benefit. In Adulterated ostentation, a man does a good deed with the intention of reaping the benefits of the world as well as of the Hereafter.

Al-Ghazali

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the deed we do Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hidden with lovely care In the heart of the deed so fair.

Christina Rossetti

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

Sonia Choquette

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

Ameen Rihani

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.