无事掘小，小事掘大。

No matter how low the target, always aim higher.

Every journey begins with a single step.

Make the best of your opportunities.

When you have nothing, aim low; when you get somewhere, aim high.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 无事 wúshì
  1. (literary, vernacular, dialectal) to have no further business; to have nothing further to discuss
  2. to have no further business; to have nothing further to discuss
2 掘 jué to dig
3 小 xiǎo
  1. small
  2. tiny
  3. few
  4. young
4 小事 xiǎoshì
  1. trifle
  2. trivial matter

classifier: 點
5 掘 jué to dig
=6 大 dà
  1. big; large; great
  2. older (than another person)
  3. eldest (as in 大姐 dàjiě)
  4. greatly; freely; fully
  5. (dialect) father
  6. (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
=6 大 dài see 大夫 dàifu