30+ Rabindranath Tagore Quotes To Keep You Motivated

Rabindranath Tagore was a great scholar, novelist, poet, musician, playwright and artist. He was the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Let us have a look at various quotes, poems etc of Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore was a Nobel Prize winning poet and made remarkable contributions to literature as a playwright, novelist, short story writer, etc. He also played a major role in the Indian cultural renaissance and became recognized as one of the architects of modern India. He was born on May 7, 1861, to Debendranath Tagore and Sharda Devi in ​​Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India).

He was the youngest among his siblings. He lost his mother when he was very young and his father traveled a lot. Therefore, Tagore was raised by servants. He died on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta (present day Kolkata). Some of the quotes of Rabindranath Tagore are given below:

• Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
• Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.
• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
• Facts are many, but the truth is one.

• Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
• We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

• To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
• We live in the world when we love it.
• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
• We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

• You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
• Music fills the infinite between two souls.
• It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
• The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
• Those who own much have much to fear.
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
• Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
• Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
• The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.
• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
• You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.