It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius · Smartyfair

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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Going slowly is fine. Stopping is the only thing that ends a journey.

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How sure this is: 40% sureLots of sources credit Confucius with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: widely attributed, no primary source found; absent from the Analects and from Wikiquote's Confucius page entirely
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026
ctext.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Analects IX.19 (Legge, read this pass): '...and I stop, the stopping is my own work... the advancing with it is my own going forward.' The genuine passage the popular line distills; the English wording is a modern paraphrase, verbatim in no translation. PARAPHRASE class.