Steve Harvey Quotes

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Steve Harvey

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 17, 1957

God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

Steve Harvey

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Steve Harvey

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

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A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

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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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My marriage to Marjorie is the most rewarding thing that ever happened to me. She gave me a life and a relationship that I didn't know existed.

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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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My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

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I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

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I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

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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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All men can and will change. But there's only one woman we're going to change for.

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You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.

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I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

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I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.

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My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

Steve Harvey

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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I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

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I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

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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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