Used to motivate perseverance and move forward.
Original source: "Although the road is slim, it is impossible; Small as it is, you can't do it without doing it. It has evolved into "what to do, what to do."
"Although the Tao is", it is impossible; Small as it is, you can't do it without doing it. Interpretation: Even if the distance is very close, you can't get there without going; Even if things are small, you can't succeed without doing them. People who live in the world and spend a lot of time hanging around will never go far, even if they can surpass others.
Extended data:
Self-cultivation means self-cultivation and striving to improve one's ideological and moral cultivation. Taoism, Confucianism and Mohism all emphasize self-cultivation, but their contents are different. Since Confucius, Confucianism has attached great importance to self-cultivation and regarded it as one of the eight purposes of education. The Confucian standard of "self-cultivation" is mainly the principle of loyalty and forgiveness and the three cardinal principles and five permanents, which is essentially an idealistic method of self-cultivation divorced from social practice.
They believe that the process of self-cultivation is: respecting things, knowing and doing, being sincere and being upright. Self-cultivation is the foundation, and family, country and the world are the goals. Therefore, through the method of "introspection", individual behavior is consistent with feudal morality, and talents are cultivated for the consolidation of feudal rule and political power. Taoist self-cultivation requires conforming to nature; Mozi called for "unity of ambition and merit" to promote the benefits and eliminate the evils and level the world.
Xunzi criticized all the schools, but praised Confucius' thought as the best idea of governing the country. Xunzi claimed to be the heir of Confucius, especially the "foreign Wang Xue" who inherited Confucius. From the standpoint of epistemology, he critically summarized and absorbed hundred schools of thought's theoretical viewpoints, formed a unique view of nature, morality and social history, and summarized the pre-Qin philosophy on this basis.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Xunzi cultivate one's morality