Top 140 Steve Harvey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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!”

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

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3. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.”

— Steve Harvey

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4. “Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.”

— Steve Harvey

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5. “If you pray about it don’t worry about it. If you’re going to worry about it don’t pray about it.”

— Steve Harvey

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6. “Your career is what you’re paid for. Your calling is what you’re made for.”

— Steve Harvey

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7. “Don’t hate the player; change the game.”

— Steve Harvey

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8. “Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.”

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

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11. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

12. “Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something!”

— Steve Harvey

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13. “Failure means you’ve now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.”

— Steve Harvey

14. “There’s no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.”

— Steve Harvey

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15. “Do what you say you’re going to do! People can do nothing but respect that.”

— Steve Harvey

16. “Act like a lady think like a man.”

— Steve Harvey

17. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

18. “But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.”

— Steve Harvey

19. “What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of.”

— Steve Harvey

20. “Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don’t let YOU stop yourself from growing!”

— Steve Harvey

21. “Don’t be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he’s not going anywhere.”

— Steve Harvey

22. “Everybody by your side ain’t on your side.”

— Steve Harvey

23. “Life is going to get bad sometimes. You’ll make poor choices. You’ll fail. You’ll lose hope and maybe want to give up. If you jump, and trust that He will be there to help you soar, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”

— Steve Harvey

24. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

25. “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

26. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

27. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

28. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

29. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

31. “Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.”

— Steve Harvey

32. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

33. “People don’t like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.”

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

35. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

36. “Sometimes we don’t appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!”

— Steve Harvey

37. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

38. “But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they’re doing anything less than that, they’re not men.”

— Steve Harvey

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39. “Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.”

— Steve Harvey

40. “There’s no way you’re going to make it out of this world without spending some time down in the valley or in a dark place. But this isn’t the time to give up. This is the time to understand that God is trying to lead you to your purpose and to your gift. Use adversity to your advantage. Don’t let it stop you.”

— Steve Harvey

41. “The Lord saved my soul.”

— Steve Harvey

42. “Change comes in every person’s life. You can either react to it or you can participate in it.”

— Steve Harvey

43. “Men respect standards- get some!”

— Steve Harvey

44. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

45. “Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.”

— Steve Harvey

46. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

47. “God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.”

— Steve Harvey

48. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

49. “The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.”

— Steve Harvey

50. “Sometimes, son, nothing is going to change until you get sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

— Steve Harvey