Top 140 Steve Harvey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

102. “There many guys out there who are actually fishing for a woman whom they are planning on keeping. But there are guys out there who are just sports fishing – catching them and then throwing them back into the ocean.”

— Steve Harvey

103. “You’ve got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.”

— Steve Harvey

104. “Providing for the ones he loves and care about, whether it’s monetarily or with sweat equity, is part of a man’s DNA, and if he loves and cares for you, this man will provide for you all these things with no limits.”

— Steve Harvey

105. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

106. “If you don’t believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?”

— Steve Harvey

107. “Excuses are the lies you convince yourself are true to avoid proving you are worthy of the gift you were given. Say this with me – “NO MORE EXCUSES.”

— Steve Harvey

108. “God has already lined up all the people in your path to get you to your dreams and your visions; all you have to do is get rid of the wrong ones.”

— Steve Harvey

109. “Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.”

— Steve Harvey

110. “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

111. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

112. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

113. “Every day, President Obama sends a beautiful message about how we should treat our women based on how he treats his wife. When people went after his wife during the campaign, he took a stand.”

— Steve Harvey

114. “I’m not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.”

— Steve Harvey

115. “You can have this, too. Don’t be another heartbreak story. Start putting yourself first – get where you want to be, and make your man be all that he can be. Remember this: the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear paralyzes you from taking action. Don’t be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he’s not going anywhere.”

— Steve Harvey

116. “I don’t have much of an attention span for TV – I nod off during the basketball playoffs – but when I watch ‘Game of Thrones’ on On Demand, I’m glued to the set. It’s mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that’s my man.”

— Steve Harvey

117. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

118. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

119. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

120. “TV is a different animal. I belong on that little screen. The big silver screen, not so much, ’cause I’ve seen my face up close when it’s 25-feet tall. I’m okay as long as you keep me in that little box.”

— Steve Harvey

121. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

122. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

123. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

124. “I know how men think when they’re not responding to questions in a clinical study.”

— Steve Harvey

125. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

126. “To be No. 1 on the ‘New York Times’ best-seller list, well, that’s alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it’s surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.”

— Steve Harvey

127. “Now that you have it all together, let me ask you this: What’s next? Knowing what’s next is paramount to your success. The what’s next is the reason to keep waking up. The what’s next is the driving force for all successful people. There always has to be a what’s next.”

— Steve Harvey

128. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

129. “Here’s a generalization but in my experience, it’s true. Women love to sit and talk for no apparent reason but to talk, but we men, we’re just not cut out to chitchat for the sake of chitchat – we don’t have time for it. We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we’re coming over there. If we don’t want anything from you, we’re not coming over there. Period.”

— Steve Harvey

130. “It’s really unimaginable that I could start where I was and get here today.”

— Steve Harvey

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

— Steve Harvey

132. “And if he loves you? Oh, he’s going to bring every cent home to you. He’s not going to come back from gambling all his money away, saying, “Here’s $100 – that’s all I got this week.” He’s going to come straight home with that check, and if there’s anything left over after he takes care of each and every one of your needs, well, then he’ll play. This is man business, baby. It’s how we do.”

— Steve Harvey

133. “Too often you focus on the cons before you even consider a pro. You can’t even think about the benefits of taking on your dream because you’re too busy focusing on the “what if,” the “what could be,” and the “why it won’t work for me” excuses. You’re willing to waste years of your life walking away from your dreams instead of running toward your destiny.”

— Steve Harvey

134. “Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.”

— Steve Harvey

135. “Other than my foundation – mentoring programs – everything I do is for money.”

— Steve Harvey

136. “Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That’s a whole lot of failure. 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

137. “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

138. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

139. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

140. “The next home-going service at your church could be yours. And the most important thing on that day won’t be the amount of flowers that surround your casket or how well the choir sings your favorite hymn. The only thing that will matter is how well you use that dash between the day you were born and the day you die.”

— Steve Harvey

141. “N othing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love – it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure.”

— Steve Harvey

142. “When you aren’t sowing into the soil of the universe, you notice that things in your life just seem to dry up and get worse. But when you sow back into the universe with your time, your passion, and your commitment to others, the world will offer abundant opportunities for you to blossom into the new you.”

— Steve Harvey

143. “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.”

— Steve Harvey

144. “Procrastinators will weigh you down. Action is the prescription for moving forward. Action will eliminate boredom. Procrastinators are waiting, and they often create more excuses to continue waiting: It isn’t the right time; I’m going to wait until it’s sunny outside; I got up late; I called them and they didn’t pick up the phone; they didn’t reply to my email. Procrastinators are going nowhere. Do not let them impede your journey to success.”

— Steve Harvey