Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop

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Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop · Smartyfair

Slow and steady wins the race.

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Keeping going beats starting fast and giving up.

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How sure this is: 60% sureLots of sources credit Aesop 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: The Tortoise and the Hare (Aesop, Perry Index 226) is genuine, but the pithy English phrase is a later paraphrase — the original Greek moral reads differently.
Sources checked: fablesofaesop.comChecked using claude-sonnet-5, 20 August 2026
gutenberg.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, trans. George Fyler Townsend (public domain; full text grepped 2026-08-22). Printed moral of The Hare and the Tortoise: 'Slow but steady wins the race.' — stored text is the popular variant ('and' for 'but'). The moral line is Townsend's English, not Aesop's Greek.