1. A little impatience will mess up a big plan.

2. The mountain monk cannot count the number of jiats, and he knows the autumn of the world when one leaf falls.

3. A drop of water penetrates the stone, and a rope cuts the wood.

Seeing the big from the small

4. The spring garden cannot be closed, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall.

5. If you don’t sweep one house, how can you sweep the world?

6. If one stitch is not mended, a thousand stitches will make it difficult to sew.

7. A drop of water, viewed with a microscope, is also a big world.

8. There is no road in the world, but it becomes a road when people walk too much.

9. A slight mistake is a thousand miles away.

10. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

11. A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed by an ant nest.