Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.02.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, here we are last break of the
day and it's time for your closing remarks. Yeah. I
just want to encourage everybody. Look, I know that life
gets tough sometimes it really does for all of us.
A poem I learned a long time ago entitled don't quit.

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They don't have they they don't know. The author of
the poem has always been entitled author unknown. Certainly I
didn't write it, but it's a poem called don't Quit.
It just reminded me so much of something I think.
I'll say it, but I wanted to tell you what

(00:44):
made me think about it. Somebody sent me a quote
from Winston Churchhill today. Somebody sent me this one today,
And what the quote is is that success can system
going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Let

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me say that to you, kid. Success consists of going
from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. I thought
about this and I said, wow, you know what, that's
really how you become successful. You just go from failure
to failure and just never lose your enthusiasm. Somebody said, Steve,

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that's hard, and I said, yeah, it is hard. I
wish I could tell you that being successful wasn't hard.
But it's hard. It really really is. There is no
easy way to become successful. It's hard. Now. I can
tell you some ways. You can short circuit it, you

(01:54):
can mess it up for yourself. I can tell you
a lot of those. But to get successful, you've got
to be extremely determined. You've got to be pretty much
hell ben on making it happen. But I tell you, man,
what can get you there? Well, I tell you what

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causes you to get there. You got to have the
right motivation. The best motivation to be successful is to
have massive dreams. And I'm talking about massive dreams. You've
got to have huge dreams. That's the best way to
get there. Because what it is, and what happened to

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me along the way, was my dreams were so big
that not seeing them to come to fruition was unacceptable.
I just couldn't see myself not at least given my
all to see if it could happen or if that
couldn't happen. Man, could I just get a portion of

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that to happen? So what happened was I made my
dream so so big man, that along the way, when
mishaps and setbacks and trials and troubles and hardships and
death and remorse and guilt and everything was facing me.

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I never lost my enthusiasm for wanting to make it,
because I just wanted so desperately for one of these
dreams to come true. So I really do understand when
he said success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm. And it's the size of the
dream that keeps you from having to lose your enthusiasm.

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Because I just kept thinking. Man like, my father used
to always tell me, aim for the moon, so in
case you miss, you'll still be amongst the stars. And
it led me to something that's more telling that said
more frequently more or recently. I learned one that came
to me when it was time to talk about giving up,
and said, the problem ain't that you aim too high

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and you miss it. The problem is if you aim
too low and you hit it. Let your mind go
think of big things, Open up your heart and your
mind to the possibilities of God. Stop living your life

(04:26):
in probability, and start living your life in possibilities. I'll
tell you what I mean by that. When people look
at something and they base it around the probability of
it happening. That's a problem because what you're saying, then
is the probability of something is to me, that just

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means it probably won't happen if this happens, or you
probably won't make it if that happens, or it probably
won't come true if you don't line up this way,
or you know, you probably might not make it. If
these people don't sign on to it, you probably won't
make it. If that, that to me is living in
the probability. You know's what's the factors that blend into

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the probability of something occurring. But if you just change
that and you went from the probability to purely the possibility. See,
I only look at life in terms of the possibility.
I have people who work for me, who do probability
factoring for me all the time. Some of the advice
I end up taking from them, the majority of us

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don't because I don't care who works for me. They
can't out dream me, and they don't have an idea
of my vision for me better than I do or
God does. So I stopped living my life in terms
of probability, and I started living my life in terms
of possibility. I only care about the possibility. The probability

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will present itself along the way, but you just got
to stay focused on the possibility. Faith don't make it easy.
Faith makes it possible. And that's guided me the whole time.
Get your dreams up, y'all, make them big man. Let
God into your life. Man, he can do some damage
with you. He can do a lot of damage for you.

(06:18):
I mean that in a good way. Y'all have a
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