Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 08.12.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve has a special message especially for those that make mistakes.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are, last break of the day,
last break, and Steve I gotta stand. Hey, you know
I was thinking of something the other day and I
wanted to pass on a bit of encouragement to everybody. Uh,
let me share something with you. If you are a

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person who makes mistakes, I want you to understand something.
Everybody makes mistakes. If you are a person who is
prone to fall, and you seem like you keep getting
it wrong over and over, I want to share something
with you. Everybody gets it wrong everybody. If you are

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a person that's finding it difficult to focus on the
task at hand, I want to tell you something. Everybody
faces that that same discipline, that same thing. Everybody faces
that the feeling of not being able to focus. Listen

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to me. I want you all to understand something. Failure
is a part of the process. Everybody who is successful
has failed. Please please listen to me. Stop beating yourself
up because you have failed. Everybody fails. Failure happens to

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be one of the best teachers ever. I'm going to
tell you something. Most of the valuable lessons I've learned
in my life came off the heels of a failure.
I don't listen to me, And in the process of failing,

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you must understand that where you are currently is not
where you are going to remain. Now is a very,
very fleeting time. I give you an example. Watch this. Okay,
n W Now, now guess what. As soon as I

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finish spelling it, that moment now has passed. It has passed.
It's over. You got to keep living your new nows.
Stop beating yourself up over your past. Your past is
to process. Don't allow people to hold you to your past.

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I get so sick sometimes. Can I be honest with
you? You know, I'll be scrolling on Internet sometime and all
of a sudden, here comes a negative story about Steve
Harvey about something in my past. And you know what,
I ain't stuttying that. I don't care I be. I
go right on past it because guess what you're not
gonna do. You're not gonna hold me to something I

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did when I was twenty four years old. He left
his ex wife. Okay, okay, how many times you gonna
say that? How many how many times you gonna make
that my fault? How many times you gonna make that
my issue? Because it's not it's not and I don't
allow people to do that to me. Don't let people

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hold you to your past when your past clearly belongs
to history. It has nothing to do with you anymore.
It's a new you. You have the right to be new.
It's like forgiving people. It's like everybody won't know. How
could you do that? He hit that girl. I gotta
God and forgave him what. You still beating him up

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for it too. I never liked him, he did this
and he did that that. You God, to let this
man move on. God to let this woman move. That
woman who wasn't a great mother back then, maybe God
has forgiven her and God has allowed her to correct
her mistakes. Everybody has to be allowed to correct their

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mistakes because you gonna keep making them. And you can't
sit up here and judge people all the time. And
stop letting people judge you. I don't allow it no more.
When you call me with some man that passed man,
get out my face. I'm a new creature. God has
changed me so many times. What I did when I

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was twenty, I don't do no more. What I did
when I was thirty, I don't do no more. I'm
sixty seven years old. Stuff I was doing in my forties,
I don't do no more. I grew, I became a
better person. You have the right to become a better person,
and nobody has a right to make you think you

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not because you made a mistake in your past. Man, Please,
like they sitting over here, just scot free. You know
what kills me about people that's always reminding you of
their past, like they ain't got one. They just sitting
up passing judgment on you, and then you allowing them
to affect your future and your present because they keep

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bringing up your past. Now, you can't bring up my
past on me no more. I've been through it. That
so what. I made a lot of mistakes when I
was a young man. I made a lot of mistakes
in my middle aged I'd have made a few as
an older man too. But guess what I asked God
for forgiveness. I've apologized anybody I've ever heard, and I've

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gone on about my business. Matter the fact that you
want to keep making it a story, that's on you.
But you're wasting your time. Stop allowing people to do
that to you. Keep being a new creature, Keep allowing
God to forgive you, You forgive yourself and going about

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your business. You don't have to keep paying for a
past mistake just cause somebody wants you to. Ain't that crazy?
How many times you got to keep paying for a
past mistake because somebody else wants you to. When God
Almighty bend and forgave you, man, miss me. Happy Monday.

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Have a great day today, y'all, and have that great
day knowing that God has forgiven you and given you
a new chance to get up and get it right.
So get up and get it right, y'all. Have a
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