Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 08.28.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. It's been a fun day. We've had a
good time today. We always want to thank our audience
for listening. I appreciate appreciate one of you. Yes, that's
why we know, but one because thank you. Hey, y'all.
My clothes of remarks today, I want to do them
on this because we had this young sister called in

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twenty six that just felt like her life was going nowhere.
She had graduated from college, she had moved back in
with her parents. All she do is go to jail.
She's only found part time work, she hasn't found anything
full time. It just feels like she's not She's looking
at her other friends and his life seemed to be
moving along and everything, and she's just sitting there desponded.

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At twenty six. I try to remind her, as I
remind everybody, Do you understand that your path, the one
that you are on, is uniquely yours. Stop comparing yourself
to other bodies, because I I can promise you there
is no one on earth that's going through exactly what

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you're going through, with the exact same set of circumstances,
with the exact same experience and with the exact same outcome.
It's not happening. Yours is very unique. Your life is
unique to you. Now, that doesn't mean that somebody ain't
had the same thing happened to them. Occasions are occasions everybody.

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Somebody's dealt with grief before, someone has dealt with the
firing before. Somebody has dealt with the repoll before. Somebody
has dealt with the sickness before. So that's not what
I'm saying. I am saying that your path is uniquely yours.
And the moment you start comparing yourself to someone else,

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it brings up the saying that I heard that It's
so true. Comparison is the greatest thief of joy. If
you want to not feel good about yourself and not
feel good about where you are, start lining up some
other people and putting yours up against theirs, and you

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don't even really know the situation of the other person,
You just putting it up there. You looking at they
Instagram and it looks better than your Instagram, and you
looking at your life and they showing you just the
good parts of day life, Well, well, what they bad
stuff at, what they problems at? Because you do know
they haveing them, don't you. You know everybody is going

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through some form of failure somewhere. You know that everybody
is not getting it all right. You do know that,
don't you? But Nah, you sitting up here thinking you
the only one that ain't getting it right because you
keep comparing yourself to others. And when you compare yourself
to others, you lose sight of what God has done
for you. Y'all gotta slow this down, man, don't into

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the comparison game, because you will lose sight of what
God has done for you. If I look at Tyler Perry,
I could find ways to think I'm not doing well.
If I look at Michael Jordan, I could find ways
to think I'm not doing well. Tiger Woods I could
find well. I could look at Brad Pitton find ways

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to think I'm not doing well. But guess what I
am doing well if I don't compare myself to them.
You know, somebody asked me a question the other day,
hey man, what other celebrity would you trade lives with?
And I went nobody. Oh, so you think your life
is the best. No, But I'm accepting of the one

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I have. I don't really know what's going on in
somebody else's house. I don't want what's going on. I
don't want who they married to, don't I don't want
the problems they have. I'm okay with where I am.
I have found peace in what God has done for me.

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Gratitude erasist negativity. Comparison is the greatest thief of joy.
If you wake up in a certain mood. Let's say tomorrow,
you wake up on what they call the wrong side
of the bed, which I never have that. I don't
wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Long
as I wake up, I don't care what side I

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get up on, as long as you wake me up.
Guess what I start with some gratitude, and that dissipates,
that disintegrates all negative energy. It is hard to be
negative and grateful, you know. I learned that best lesson
at my mother's funeral. We were all sitting there crying

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on the front row, me and my brothers and sisters,
and the pastor got up and everybody had been talking
and I was the worst day of my life. And
he said to the Harvey kids, I know y'all feeling bad,
but sister Harvey was stand out member here at this
church for forty years as a Sunday school teacher. Y'all
haven't had a chance to look around, but I want

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you to look around. And that church was packed, he said.
You haven't been downstairs, but our overflow room is completely full.
He said. You don't know this, but we had to
put up speakers outside in the parking lot because all
the parking lots that the church is full, we can't
let nobody else in the doors. That's the effect y'all's

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mother had over forty years of a Sunday school teacher,
he said. And then I want you to think of
all the lives your mama has affected. Look at these
people in here. There's some people ain't been to this
church in years, came here to pay homage to your mama.
He said, you know how much good she did. And
then he told me the nugget that I needed. He said,

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joy and depression cannot reside in the same space. Joy
and depression cannot reside in the same space. And what
he was saying to me was when it looks dark
for you, think of the good things. Think of all
the stuff you can be grateful for. When you start

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feeling like you ain't got it going on, because if
somebody wish they had it going on just like you,
so be grateful, show gratitude, and stop comparing yourself to others.
Comparison is the greatest thief of joy. Those are my
closing remarks today. Hey listen, y'all, do yourself a huge
favor today. Talk to God today. He would absolutely love

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