Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”

“If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.”

“Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.”

“If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.”

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky.”

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

“The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.”

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

“We live in the world when we love it.”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.”

“If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.”

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

“The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.”

“Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.”

“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”

“We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”