"One cannot reach a thousand miles without accumulating steps" Pinyin: bù jī kuǐ bù ,wú yǐ zhì qiān lǐ,bù jī xiǎo liú,wú yǐ chéng jiāng hǎi

From: Xunzi's "Persuasion" "Xue Pian"

Original text: Therefore, if you don't accumulate steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't reach a river or sea.

Translation: Therefore, without accumulating one and a half steps, there is no way to reach a thousand miles away; without accumulating small flows, there is no way to form rivers and seas.

About the author

Xunzi (about 313 BC - 238 BC), whose name was Kuang, was respected as "Qing" by people at that time. In the Western Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the taboo of Liu Xun, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, he also He was called Sun Qing because the two characters "Xun" and "Sun" have the same ancient pronunciation. At the end of the Warring States Period, he was born in the Zhao Guoyi family (now Anze County, Shanxi Province) and was a representative figure of the late Pre-Qin Confucian period.

Xunzi also made a significant contribution to the rearrangement of Confucian classics. He and his disciples wrote the book "Xunzi".

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Encouraging Learning