many sand piled up will make a mountain
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī t ǔǔ ch é ngsh ā n, which means that more soil can become a mountain. It means that success in business comes from little by little, little by little, big by little. It comes from Xunzi's persuasion.
The origin of Idioms
Xun Kuang's Xunzi · quanxue: "if you accumulate soil to form a mountain, wind and rain will flourish; if you accumulate water to form an abyss, Jiaolong will flourish."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, object, clause and metaphor.
many sand piled up will make a mountain
Rise in the morning and fall in the evening - zhāo shēng mù gě
Look at the outside and know the inside - wàng biǎo zhī lǐ
a far-sighted plan that goes deep into the most probable changes in the years to come - jì shēng lǜ yuǎn
neither spreading about nor branching out-concise - bù màn bù zhī
play the trick of a thief crying " stop thief - zéi hǎn zhuō zéi