Latest Steve Harvey Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not a movie star and I know that.

  Steve Harvey

  Stars, Movie Star, Knows

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.

  Steve Harvey

  Dreamer, Aspiration, Whole Life

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• I'm a old hoodlum, so I will jump on you if I have to.

  Steve Harvey

  Ifs

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.

  Steve Harvey

  Moving, Want, Faults

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

  Steve Harvey

  Writing, Wife, Missing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  School, Parent, Way

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself and placed smart people around me. I surrounded myself with people who not only are intelligent and effective about finances, taxes, and money management, but they (also) love me.

  Steve Harvey

  Smart, Intelligent, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Eye, Long, Giving

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• You think that God positioned you here so you can just have it all to yourself? God blesses you to become a blessing. That's the deal.

  Steve Harvey

  Blessing, Thinking, God Bless You

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  Icons, People, Role Models

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Coward, Doe, Get Money

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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!

  Steve Harvey

  Get Money, Fame, Fins

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Father, Doe, Way

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Mean, Player, Games

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• You have to pick your places to "step up" and you have you pick your spots. If you're just going to run out there, and, just be what/who you want to be, then you won't be that long.

  Steve Harvey

  Running, Long, Want

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• I talked to Minister [Louis] Farrakhan many times about this subject - there is our reality that we have to deal with on an ongoing basis because we have to exist in order for certain things to get done.

  Steve Harvey

  Reality, Order, Ongoing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

  Steve Harvey

  Brave, Soldier, Scared

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Take Me, Entertaining

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

  Steve Harvey

  Boys, Foundation, Principles

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• If you think "sagging," and, how many women you've got, and how big a chain you've got, and how much dope you're slangin', and how much money you've got in your pocket makes you a "man," then you're sadly mistaken. You're going to be a misguided soul your entire life.

  Steve Harvey

  Dope, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.finalcall.com

• 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

  Men, Views, Hip Hop

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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

  Steve Harvey

  Teacher, Men, Role Models

  Source: www.finalcall.com