Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
RT Rabindranath TagorePoet · 1861–1941What this quote means
Wishing and watching change nothing. At some point, courage means stepping in and actually setting out.
Context
Bengali poet and the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature, who wrote on faith, freedom, and joy.
This line is among the quotes by Rabindranath Tagore that readers return to on motivation — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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