Amazing Steve Harvey Quotes

Steve Harvey Quotes on Success

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.

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.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

Steve Harvey Quotes on Faith

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.

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.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you’re in trouble.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Relationships

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.

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.

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’.

All I’m telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn’t looking for a serious relationship, you’re not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord’s green earth-you’re capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you’re independent (which means, to him, that you’re not going to be in his pockets)-but if he’s not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Dreams

Men don’t come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We’re looking across the room at you, and we don’t care about your hopes and dreams. We don’t care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.

You can’t tell big dreams to small minded people.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Cars

Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you’ve got to know when to say something. But if you are forever going to be afraid to say anything, then you become irrelevant – as a force. I mean, so the God-given gift that you got, you’re not a relevant player in the game – you’re just a dude whose got money, got a big house and some cars.

You don’t just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs and hustle to make money because of women. We drive fancy cars because of women. We dress nice, put on cologne, get haircuts and try to look all shiny and new for you. We do all of this because the more our game is stepped up, the more of you we get. You’re the ultimate prize to us.

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.

Steve Harvey Quotes on Teacher

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.

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.

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

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.

Steve Harvey Quotes on Giving

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.

Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.

All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: “I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family.” Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother’s every time.

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 fiancée, his wife, his baby’s mama, something.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Hip Hop

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

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’.

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.

The hip hop community is not at fault here – I’m definitely not blaming them. But, that can’t be the only view of manhood for our young men.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Parents

I don’t see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They’re heading up households; they’re single parents; they’re breadwinners; they’re the ‘mamas,’ they’re the ‘daddies,’ they’re the ‘uncles.’ They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.

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.

I’ve had my share of problems along the way. Don’t get me wrong, because there is no school for this. You go from a poor person to a rich person. My parents didn’t have no money; didn’t tell me nothing about investments.

Steve Harvey Quotes on Mother

My father was married to mother ’til the day he died, for over 64 years. He’s why I kept trying to get the marriage thing right. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Harvey Quotes on School

I don’t see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They’re heading up households; they’re single parents; they’re breadwinners; they’re the ‘mamas,’ they’re the ‘daddies,’ they’re the ‘uncles.’ They take the kids to school; they take them to doctors, you know? They take them to games. I see it all the time.

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.

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

I’ve had my share of problems along the way. Don’t get me wrong, because there is no school for this. You go from a poor person to a rich person. My parents didn’t have no money; didn’t tell me nothing about investments.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Sunday

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.

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.

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

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.

Steve Harvey Quotes Your reality is yours

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else’s reality while doing nothing about yours.

Steve Harvey Quotes on Get Money

If you’re a generous person, when you get money and fame, you’re going to be more generous. If you’re a sharer, you’re going to be more sharing. If you’re a coward, you’re just going to be a bigger coward. That’s all money and fame does.

If you ain’t nothing when you get money and fame, you’re just going to be more nothing. If you don’t stand for nothing, when you get money and fame, you ain’t suddenly fin to stand for nothing! You’re just fin to be richer and more famous – standing for nothing!

A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this “role model” or this “icon.” That ain’t how it works. Money and fame – all it does it just allows you to be more of who you really are.

Steve Harvey Quotes about Fathers

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.

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.

I’ve always been this way. My father taught this to me. Here’s the thing, you have to understand; the thing about having money: Money and fame don’t change you, all it does is allow you to be more of who you are anyway.

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

Steve Harvey Inspiring Quotes

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.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you’re in trouble.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 listening’.

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.

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.

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.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

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.

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.

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.

Let him treat you like a lady and open the car door for you. If he doesn’t automatically open the door for you, stand by the darn thing and don’t get into the vehicle until he realises he needs to get hid behind out of the driver’s seat and come round and open the car door for you. That’s his job!

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

God does things for us because He trusts us; that when He gives it to us, that we will do the right thing. We’ll open up our eyes and see the plan He has for us. If we’re not going to open up our eyes, don’t worry – you’re not going to have it long. You’re short-lived.

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.

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.

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of

I can’t cuss and tell jokes the rest of my life. I gotta say something meaningful. I gotta give something back to a Creator who has given so much to me.

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.

All you have to do is speak up. Tell him straight up: “I need you here to protect and provide for us, to give us security in our lives, to help raise these children, to set an example for this boy, who needs to see what real men do, and for this girl, who needs to know what a real man is so she can find one of her own someday. I need you to be the head of this family.” Lay it out like this, and your requirements will trump his mother’s every time.

I’m not a good mother at all.

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

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.

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.

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.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don’t want to show up.

My father was married to mother ’til the day he died, for over 64 years. He’s why I kept trying to get the marriage thing right. 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.

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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