Steve Harvey Quotes

You’ve got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

I sit my three sons down and say, ‘Listen to me. When the police stop you, immediately comply. Don’t walk away, don’t smart-mouth; get your hands up and get down on the ground.’ If you’re not black, you might not have to have that conversation, but I go over and over it with them because I don’t want that phone call.

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.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there’s no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you’re safe, you’ll never soar!

I take my brand very seriously.

A woman can’t change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

I don’t want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

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.

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You’re never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

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.’

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.

Sometimes we don’t appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!

When you’re happy at home, you can make a lot of things happen.

The Lord saved my soul.

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.