Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 02.11.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know a while back, when I used to fly
to all my gigs, I would be in the airport
and every time I had a chance, I would go
buy a Rob Report. This magazine called rob Report. It's
a lifestyle magazine. You know. It shows expensive cars, expensive homes,

(00:21):
And I was just dreaming, man, I was just dreaming
of one day being able to buy some of this stuff.
I just always was interested in what people had that
I wanted to aspire to. Now, let me explain something
before I say this. Everybody's goal doesn't have to be
wealth or money. It can be anything. So I want

(00:41):
you to take this story. I want you to apply
it to yourself however it fits. But one thing for sure,
whatever your aspirations in life are, they have to be
just that and aspiration. You gotta have goals. You gotta
have something you're shooting for. You gotta have dreams and visions.
The Bibles as a man without a dream or a
vision shall perish. It mentions nothing about you not having

(01:04):
an education. You can actually not make it. You can
actually make it without a college degree. Now, if you
want to be a doctor, lawyer, scientist, engineer, architect, you're
gonna have to get yourself a degree. Okay, let's be
clear about that. But if that's not in the cards
for you, there is a way to make it. But

(01:26):
you're going to have to have an aspiration. And when
I used to look at these magazines and rob Report,
I'd sit on the plane, I would just dream of
this and that. And in the magazine they had this
statue of this muscular man with a mallet in his
hand and a chisel, and the bottom of him was
all carved and cut up and cut out, and the

(01:49):
bottom you could see where he was the one who
was chipping away at the stone to make himself. And
the name of this statue was self made Man and man.
I decided back then, when I got myself to where
I wanted to be, become successful, I was gonna buy

(02:12):
this statue on robb Report, because they sell it. It's
a bronze statue and it's called self made Man. Well,
I became successful enough to afford the statue. And when
I became successful enough to afford the statue, I realized
that the statue wasn't true. It's amazing how I discovered that.

(02:32):
I discovered that there are no self made men. You
could take credit for it. All you want, you can
lay claim to being a self made man. But I
have news for you. There are none. There are no
successful people who got there by themselves. You can't, you can't.
You have to have God's help. You have to have

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God's blessings, and you have to have God's favor in
order to succeed. And God uses people to be the favor,
to be the blessing, to be the help. I don't
know a single person who will tell the real gospel
truth and tell you they made it all by themselves.

(03:16):
That ain't true, That ain't true or sound good to say, yeah,
I did this, I did that, I did this, I
did that. Okay, But if you told the whole truth,
somebody helped you. God puts somebody in your path to
give you some advice. God touched somebody to help you financially.
God helps somebody give you a place to state. God

(03:39):
helps somebody take you under their wings. Something happens somewhere
from somebody else. What I'm saying is on your journey,
if you discover a like minded person, attach yourself to him.
As a matter of fact, seek them out. You ain't
got to wait for them to walk across your path.

(04:00):
You can actually seek out like minded people. You know,
they got groups for everything. I don't care what you
in a group. They got people who take mushroom. They
got mushroom groups. They I don't care what you come
up with. They got a group for it. They got
people who are They got grief counseling groups. They got
people who've been addicted groups. They've got people who study

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the stars group. They got bird watching groups. I don't
care what your interest is. Somebody out there got the
same thing. Find them, attach yourself to them. Now be careful.
Now be careful. Just because somebody got a group, don't
mean it's for you. Be very careful. Every group ain't

(04:44):
who they say they are. If you ain't been swinging,
don't start swinging. Be careful who you select to put
in your circle, because that's going to define who you are.
And the number one component to all success and happiness
is your relationship with God. You will have no greater
relationship than your relationship with God. The second most important

(05:07):
relationship in your life is who you If it is
who you decide to spend the rest of your life with,
Lord Lord, Lord, have mercy. That's an important one. But
even when you pick that person, make sure they like minded,
make sure you are evenly yoked. Make sure you want
some of the same things gonna go in the same direction,

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because if you attach yourself to somebody that don't want
to go where you're going and ain't pulling in the
same direction, something's gonna get pulled apart. And it's probably y'all.
So think about it. It's just help to tell yourself.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Everybody, talk to God.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
You would absolutely love to hear Father for all.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
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