Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 12.03.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know a single living soul that has not
had to make a comeback on some level. You know. Look,
you could be going along in school as a youngster
and all of a sudden fail a test. That's that's
failure to some young people. I don't You can be

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a person trying to make a team and don't make
the team. That's failure to some people. It's some people
who get it wrong in a relationship and lose, lose somebody.
That's failure to them. It's gonna happen to everybody at
one point in time in your life. Now, imagine this.
Suppose you decided to never recover from the failure. What

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would happen to you? Well, let's look at it. So
you would stay there in that failure, accept it as
a failure, and then allow the failure to define who
you are. I number one thing you have got to
do is stop thinking that one failure defines who you are.

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When I'm telling you right now, every failure you will
have is designed to redesign you. That is the design
of failure. It reshapes you, molds you, It causes you
to come out of it a different person. All of them.

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I did a speech last night, and I made a
statement because some young person said, man, what happens when
you have when you take a lot of als? You know,
a lot of l's is losses to young people. So
what happened if you take a lot of als? It said,
mister Harvey, have you ever taken an L before? I said, well,

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I was looking at it the wrong way. But according
to the way you're saying it, y'all, I took some als.
But I had to learn something. I never had a loss.
All my l's was lessons. And you gotta start understanding
that that the ls you take in life, if you

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stop looking at them and losses and look at them
as lessons, oh my goodness, it will help you. And
it's a redefining moment for you to fail at something.
The problem with some people, junior, is that they allow
the failure to keep them too long. Like that failure

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that's it. Man. Do you know how many times I failed?
Oh my goodness, I had failed so many times. But
you know, when I look back on my life, every
time I failed, it taught me something. So I started
understanding that failure was a part of the process. And
once I got that in my head, that failure was

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a part of the process. I could, I could handle
it better. Now let me tell you something. Now, let's
be honest as human beings. It's hard. Them lessons is hard, man,
And they throw you sometime. I ain't gonna lie to you,
or they throw you into something. Some of them lessons
is costly. I understand that. But you cannot tell me

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one single thing you've ever gone through that God didn't
bring you through. You can't name one. And if He
didn't bring you through it, he's currently pulling you through
it right now. You know how I know that because
you still here, You're still surviving. You're gonna be all right.
But you gotta take them failures, man. And I told

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I told the group last night, the failure is a
part of the process. It's how you win. Man. You know,
you know the saying failure is a wonderful teacher. It is.
It's the best teacher I've ever had. My father used
to say something, the best lesson is a baut lesson.

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I didn't get what he was talking about back then,
but I knew now. The best lesson is a bout lesson,
the one you pay for. Oh, when you pay for one, Uh, oh,
that one was sink. I'm gonna tell you, man, a
true story. This is a long time ago. I was
driving nineteen seventy two Chevy, and I was in a

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hurry to get somewhere. And that was a truck in
front of this school sign, and the school sign was
flashing twenty miles per hour. It was a truck parked
in front of the sign, and I didn't see the sign.
So I went on, I'm doing about thirty five miles power.
Who please pull me over, Please pull me over. I
got a ticket. I told her Man, I didn't see

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the sign. He said, Sir, that ain't got nothing to
do with me. He say, it's posted back there and
it's flashing. I say, but I I didn't see the sign.
He said, sir, I don't know how you couldn't see
that sign. That sign has a flashing yell of light.
So I looked back there and I saw it flashing.
I said, but see, Sir, that truck is in the way.
He said, that ain't my business. My job is to

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enforce the law. While I was in a hurry to
get to was to court. I was winning this settlement
for this accident I had, and I was getting eight
hundred dollars. On the day that the check came was
my court appearance for the speeding ticket. The speeding ticket

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was two hundred and seventy five dollars. I had just
got to check for eight hundred. Brother, that was more
than a fourth of that money gone that lesson right there.
I ain't been through a schools on. If I see
a school, I don't care if the light flashing or not.
I do twenty miles an hour or now. God is good, y'all.
God is good all the time, and all the time.

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God is good. You just gotta recognize, y'all. Have a
great day today. Talk to God today, y'all. He'd love
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