The tortoise and rabbit race in classical Chinese:
The tortoise and the rabbit walk in a race. The rabbit walks fast and sleeps in the middle. The tortoise walks late and works hard. When the rabbit woke up, the tortoise had arrived first.
Translation:
The tortoise and the rabbit race. The rabbit runs fast, but sleeps in the middle. The tortoise runs slowly, but it always keeps walking. When the rabbit woke up, the tortoise had reached the finish line.
The ancients said well, there are people outside, and there are days behind. Never be proud. If you want to achieve ultimate success, you must make unremitting efforts. Pride makes people lag behind, while modesty makes people progress.
Little rabbit is arrogant, thinking that he runs fast and doesn't work hard, which leads to his failure. The little turtle made unremitting efforts to improve herself and finally succeeded.
In the usual study, if you get a little achievement, you will be complacent, feel that you are better than others, and your study is not as serious as before. Later, when your exam results were not satisfactory, you knew not to be too proud.
A short story about perseverance:
1, once in class, Socrates gave his disciples an assignment to do one thing and shake hands a hundred times a day. After a week, he asked how many people still insisted on doing it, and 90% people insisted on doing it.
A month later, he asked again, now there is only half left. A year later, he asked again, there is only one person who persists now, and that person is Plato.
Li Bai, a great poet in Tang Dynasty, didn't like reading when he was a child. One day, while the teacher was not at home, he sneaked out to play. He came to the river at the foot of the mountain and saw an old woman grinding an iron pestle on a stone.
Li Bai was puzzled and asked, "Old woman, what are you doing grinding the iron pestle?" The old woman said, "I am grinding the needle." Li Bai was surprised and asked, "Oh dear! As thick as a pestle, how can it be ground into a needle? "
The old woman smiled and said, "As long as you grind it every day, the pestle will become thinner and thinner. Are you afraid it won't be a needle? " Hearing this, Li Bai was ashamed of himself. He turned and ran back to the bookstore.
From then on, he kept in mind the truth that "as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is ground into a needle", studied hard, and finally became a great poet, known as the "Poet Fairy".