Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 08.25.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we are, guys, our last break of the day,
and it's been a great day. This has been a
fun day crazy. Thank you guys for listening. We appreciate
your business for sure. Steve Hey, here's my closing remarks today.

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I want to remind everybody of something that's really important.
You have got to take a chance. Period. You have
got to take risk. You have got to put it
on the line. You have got to step out on faith.

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You cannot stand there and play it safe your entire life.
You cannot win playing safe. You have got to step
up to the plate and run the risk of striking out.
You've got to line up on your mark and run
the risk of getting beat. You have got to take

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a chance. Life has value when it has chances in it.
I know some people who have played it safe their
entire life. I went to school with them. I know
some people right now, man, who stayed on the job
that they did not enjoy, to retire from it and

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now to be seeking part time work because they can't
make it on one third of what they were already
struggling on, because that's their retirement pension. All because and
he told me, hey, man, I just took the safe route.
I wanted to be safe. Oh man, I cannot tell you, man,

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the value in taking a chance. Now, here's what most
people don't take chances. It is the fear of failure
that freezes people to take chances. Well, here's a problem
with that. Fear is the number one cause of failure,
because if you don't attempt it, it cannot happen. And
in the failed attempt, in the never attempting, you have

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conceded yourself to defeat. You gotta take chances. Man, It's okay.
And don't worry about what the haters saying. Then they
says they always got something to say. Anyway, Well you
started that business. How I see that didn't work out
for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you did. You started a business.

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It didn't work out. It failed. But now guess what
you know something? You know something that they don't know.
You know two things. You learned the valuable lesson of
how to make a business more successful because you failed
at one. And secondly, you know what it feels like
to valiantly try. Average person don't even know that. You know.

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I paraphrase this saying for a long time now, but
it's and I paraphrase it this way because it helps me.
When I say it this way, the credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
is marred with dust, blood, sweat, and tears, not to
those cold, intimid souls in the stands who know neither

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victory nor defeat. And it's kind of what I heard
Denzel online the other day talking about people. It's too
much talking nowadays. People just talking. People got opinions. Those
who do do, those who can't don't. It's just people
just talking. Man, but have never made an attempt. I
would rather have attempted to be great than to set

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there and settle for mediocricy. I promise you I will.
I will take the attempt to be great every single time.
Because here's the deal. If you aim for the moon
and you miss, you can still be a more stars.
But if you never shoot the shot, guess what that
bullet remains in your gun. You've hit nothing. How many

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people do you know who are miserable right now in
their life, who have a go to a job that
they don't care for. And I'm not saying you have
to start a business to be successful, That's not what
I'm saying, but you should be doing what you were
born to do. You should make an attempt at living
in your gift before you leave this world. You have

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got to try. Listen. I know that all you can
do for tomorrow is plan, hope, and aspire. But you
know what the goal is to see tomorrow. So when
tomorrow gets here, what have you done to aspire to
accomplish to make your tomorrow better? Give us this day?

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This is the Lord's prayer. Now give us this day
our daily brain. Do you know what that means? You're
asking God to help you all to your steps and
do the things necessary today to make your day go well.
But understand something, Everything you do today will have an
effect on your tomorrow. If you do nothing today, what

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do you think tomorrow has for you? You know, it's
so many ways people take these sayings and they use
it to their advantage to justify some mediocracy. The Bible
says faith without works is dead. You know what that means.
That means you can have all the faith in the world.
I believe God can do this. I believe one day

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I'll have this. I expire to become that. But if
you don't put no work behind it today, yo, tomorrow
ain't gonna have what you've been hoping for. You can
put all the faith in it you want to. If
you ain't gonna apply, no work man what you want,
but imply work. You gotta take a chance. You gotta
take risks. You have got to take risks, y'all. Life

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is valuable with risk. There's learning, there's an experience gained
in risk, but then there's also the possibility that you
will win, and that is worth the risk. All right,
those are my closing remarks today. I hope you got
something from it. I hope I touched somebody. If I
didn't tune in tomorrow, God Willie might have something for

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you then. But here's the big thing. Please talk to
God today. He would absolutely love to pure from me.
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