Top 100 Steve Harvey Quotes
#1. Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.
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#2. Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.
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#3. I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.
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#4. How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
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#5. Men are driven by who they are, what they do, and how much they make.
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#7. In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.
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#8. My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.
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#9. Sit up, speak with boldness about what you know, and add value that would be absent from the table if you remained silent. Take your opportunity to add your unique talents and skills to the mix.
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#10. There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.
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#11. I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.
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#13. I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.
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#14. You have nothing if you're texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push 'reply all.' I mean, since we're lying, we might as well lie to everybody.
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#15. Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.
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#16. I'm still very much a Christian and have a great relationship with God. I love Him, but one of my flaws is that I cuss.
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#17. Do what you say you're going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.
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#19. When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.
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#20. Our creator, in his infinite wisdom, created every single soul with a gift. Your gift may be totally unique or it may be similar to
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#21. We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'
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#22. Some parts of your vision are meant to be shared, in confidence, only with a trusted mentor, friend, or family member. And some aspects of your vision honestly don't need to go beyond your prayer time with God.
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#23. THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME.
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#24. The range of your vision is impaired by the location of your head.
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#26. Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.
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#27. Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.
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#28. I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.
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#29. It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.
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#30. If he hasn't lined up the who he is, the what he does, and the how much he makes in the way that he sees fit, he can't possibly be to you what he wants to be.
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#31. It is a promise of God that when you do the right thing, an even better thing will happen... If you take one step, He'll take two. When you are bold enough to step off in faith, to jump, that is when you'll soar.
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#32. If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.
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#33. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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#34. Men respect women who have standards - get some!
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#35. Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.
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#36. You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
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#37. If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I'm afraid of flying.
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#38. The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.
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#39. I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.
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#40. Some of us have been playing the same self-defeating records over and over again in our heads for so long that we don't know how to think any differently about ourselves.
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#41. Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action.
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#42. Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
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#43. What I learned from that moment is that when you face your fears, they aren't as big as you thought they were. What makes them big is when you don't turn around to face them head-on. The longer you avoid your fears, the bigger they grow in your mind.
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#45. If a man loves you ... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
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#46. You have to learn to convince yourself that the possibility is greater than the inevitability of doing nothing. Listen,
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#47. The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.
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#48. God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.
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#49. Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
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#51. So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.
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#53. I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.
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#54. What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of
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#56. You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table.
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#57. There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.
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#58. If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.
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#59. The quote that i liked is"The moment of the baby boy is born is taught to be tough" i really liked this quote from the book that am reading because i think its the same in UAE,we teach our baby boy to be strong and to get up without crying and to depend on him self.
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#60. I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.
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#61. It's really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.
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#62. I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
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#63. You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
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#64. If you do what you've always done, your life will not get better.
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#65. Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
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#66. You can't tell big dreams to small minded people.
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#67. Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.
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#68. Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.
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#69. A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.
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#70. My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.
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#71. Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.
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#72. All men CAN change, but that doesn't mean that all men WILL change. There's only one woman whom we will change for. If a man is not willing to change, it means that you aren't the one.
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#73. People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.
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#74. The cookie is the critical part. It's a word I created for sex and you've got to give a man all three things. If you miss one out, he is going to find it somewhere else.
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#75. Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.
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#76. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.
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#77. All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.
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#78. Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.
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#79. It never ceases to amaze me how much people talk about relationships, think about them, read about them, ask about them - even get in them without a clue how to move them forward.
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#80. People get jealous and use whatever information they have to make you feel bad and themselves feel better.
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#81. Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something!
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#82. I ain't no author, man ... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.
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#83. Stop heaping your own definition of love on men and recognize that men love differently.
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#84. Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.
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#85. A real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy
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#86. I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.
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#87. We become our own opposition when we accept the following: procrastinating, lying to ourselves, comparing ourselves to others, and having self-doubts - in short, anything that gets in the way of our becoming who we were created to be.
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#88. Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.
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#89. You don't have to sit there and keep losing valuable years of life with a man who's not right for you...You have to keep moving forward and believe that God has the right person for you...the right person to give you strength and encouragement to keep you jumping toward your dreams.
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#90. No matter the flaws you find when you look at yourself in the mirror, somewhere on God's earth, you are really "doing it" for someone - someone out there is attracted to you.
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#91. One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us.
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#92. If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?
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#93. Ask any guy if sex is important in a relationship and the one who says no is lying. I just haven't met that guy yet. When you meet him, let's get him in to the Smithsonian - he's that special and rare.
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#94. The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.
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#95. Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.
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#96. You control what you can control - your image, the way you conduct yourself, the way you let men talk to and approach you - and use that to get the relationship you want.
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#97. Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere
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#98. The only way woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men
an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gay guy.
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#99. I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now ... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?
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#100. Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.
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