Adhere to the famous saying: As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.

As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle. ?Chinese proverb

Pestle: a stick for pounding rice or clothes. proverb. It is a metaphor that as long as you are determined and work hard, you can succeed in anything no matter how difficult it is.

Idiom explanation

Idiom: As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle

Explanation: Pestle: a stick for pounding rice or pounding clothes. proverb. It is a metaphor that as long as you are determined and work hard, you can succeed in anything no matter how difficult it is.

Allusions to idioms

Source: Song Dynasty Zhu Mu's "Fangyu Shenglan Meizhou Mozhen River": It is said that Li Bai studied in the Elephant'er Mountain and gave up before completing his studies. When I was crossing this stream, I met an old woman grinding an iron pestle. I asked her, "I want to make a needle." ?Taibai felt his intention and graduated?

Word analysis

Sentence examples: As long as he works hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle. After five years of hard work, he has mastered English proficiently.

Pinyin code: zygz

Synonyms: As long as you work hard, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle

Usage: as object, attributive, clause; used to admonish people

Story: Li Bai, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, never studied seriously when he was a child. He often threw away his books and went out to play. One day, Li Bai met a gray-haired old woman who was grinding a big iron rod on a stone. He was curious and asked her what she was doing. The old woman told him that she wanted to grind it into an embroidery needle. Li Bai was deeply moved, and he studied hard from then on [2 ] books and finally became a literary giant.

Historical allusion: As long as you work hard, an iron rod can be ground into a needle.

Du Fu once commented on a poem written by the great poet Li Bai, "When the pen falls, the wind and rain startle, the poem becomes a weeping ghost and god." This means that if Li Bai started to write a poem, the wind and rain would startle him. After the poem was written, even the ghosts and gods would be moved to tears.

So, was Li Bai born so smart? Did he know how to study hard since he was a child? No. Li Bai was very playful when he was a child and often skipped school.

One day, Li Bai was on his way to school when he saw an old mother grinding a very thick iron rod. Li Bai was very strange and didn’t understand what the old mother was grinding the iron rod for, so he stepped forward. He asked politely: "Old mother, what are you doing grinding this iron rod?" The old mother didn't even raise her head and kept grinding: "I lost my embroidery needle. I want to grind it into a needle." Li Bai was startled when he heard this and said: "This is not easy!" The old mother raised her head and said: "It is not easy to grind an iron rod into a needle, but after a long time, it can be ground into a needle."

From grinding an iron pestle into a needle, Li Bai thought of learning. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can do anything no matter how difficult it is. As long as you persevere and persevere, you will surely make progress and achievements in your knowledge. From then on, Li Bai never played truant again. He studied poetry and books every day and finally became the greatest poet in the history of Chinese poetry.

Famous quotes about perseverance

1. Although patience and persistence are painful things, they can gradually bring you benefits. ? Ovid

2. The most important reason why I can succeed in science is my love for science and my persistence in long-term exploration. ?(UK) Darwin

3. The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

4. How can there be the fragrance of plum blossoms without experiencing a bone-chilling cold?

5. When rowing against the current, hold on with all your strength, and a pole of loose energy will retreat thousands of miles away. ?Dong Biwu

6. The rope cuts the wood, and the water drops penetrate the stone.

7. Whoever has the will to go through untold hardships can achieve any goal. ?Menander

8. If you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t become a river. ?Xunzi

9. Since you expect a glorious and great life, you should start today with unwavering determination and unswerving faith, and rely on your own wisdom and perseverance to create you and Human happiness.

10. Be poor and strong, and never fall into the clouds. ?Wang Bo

11. As long as you work hard enough, an iron pestle can be ground into a needle. ?Chinese proverb

12. Only perseverance can make us successful, and the source of perseverance lies in being unswerving and resolutely taking the means needed to achieve success. ?Chernyshevsky

13. All new things are always like this at the beginning. There are many enthusiastic people at first, but soon they become indifferent and stop doing it, because he has understood , it cannot be done without a lot of hard work, and only those who want to do it can endure the pain. ?Dostoyevsky

14. Therefore, when Heaven is about to assign a great responsibility to a person, he must first strain his mind, strain his muscles and bones, starve his skin, deplete his body, and mess up his place. Because, it is tempting to endure and gain what it cannot.

?Meng Ke

15. To learn, one must be firm and persistent. If one is not firm, one will become weak; if one is not firm, one will retreat. ?Feng Zixian

16. If you have permanence, why bother to sleep at the third watch and the fifth watch? The most useless thing is to be exposed to the cold for ten days in one day. ?Mao Zedong

17. Those who persevere can fight in the storm of fate.

18. With perseverance, gold and stone can be carved.

19. The tree of patience bears golden fruit.

20. A camel walks slowly, but it will eventually reach its destination.

21. Patience is the foundation of all intelligence.

22. Wherever sincerity comes, gold and stone will open. ?Cai E

23. Those who persistently pursue and get the greatest happiness from it are the successful ones. ?Thoreau

24. Patience is the foundation of all intelligence. ?Plato

25. Without great willpower, there can be no great talent or strategy. ?Balzac

26. Perseverance is permanent enjoyment.

27. Although the ax is small, it can finally chop down the hardest oak tree after many chops.

28. Without experiencing wind and rain, it will not grow into a big tree; without being tempered, it will be difficult to become steel.