You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
In plain words
You can stare at the water all day. You only cross it by setting off.
Where these words come from
- 40% sureLots of sources credit Rabindranath Tagore with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- attributed to Tagore, but not found in the actual text of Stray Birds (1916)
