A drop of water can pierce a stone. It was not built in a day. -Wang Chong's On Balance and Form a Chapter
The edge of the sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold. -"Caution, Virtue and Diligence"
If you don't accumulate steps, you will be thousands of miles away; If you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be a river. -Xunzi's Persuasion
Mount Tai won't let the soil, so it can become big. -Reese's book of remonstrance and expulsion.
Rivers and seas do not choose small streams, so they can be deep. -Biography of Historical Records and Reese
Leap, not ten steps; This is a great contribution to the success of Ma Xu. -Xunzi's Persuasion
Building a platform for goodness, success is accumulated. -Lu You's Complete Poems (9)
Teaching each other, the cause is accumulating. -Lu You's "Sending a Dragon to Jizhou"
Diligence is good at diligence, barren is good at playing; What I did was thought, but it was destroyed. -Han Yu's "Learning Solution"
Related explanations:
Rome was not built in a day. It means that a three-foot thick ice layer can't be reached in a day or two. The moral is that the glory of something or an achievement can not be achieved in a day or two or in a short time, but depends on the achievements accumulated over the years. Jianghu artists have a saying: "One minute on stage, ten years off stage" is the best explanation that Rome was not built in a day.
A drop of water can pierce a stone. It was not built in a day. It doesn't take a day or two for water droplets to penetrate the stone. The moral is that the glory of something or an achievement can not be achieved in a day or two or in a short time, but depends on the achievements accumulated over the years.
If you don't accumulate steps, you will be thousands of miles away; If you don't accumulate small streams, you won't be a river. It means that a journey of a thousand miles is one step at a time, and you can't walk a thousand miles without small steps of accumulation. By extension, we should be down-to-earth, step by step, not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of twists and turns, and persevere in order to finally achieve our goal.
Teaching each other, the cause is accumulating. It means that the success of all undertakings lies in accumulation rather than forced study.
Building a platform for goodness, success is accumulated. Kindness is like Gai Lou, which is built step by step, and success is accumulated bit by bit.