May 29, 2023 • 6 mins
Today in Closing Remarks, Steve leaves us with poems for inspiration. Happy Memorial Day!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, here we are last break of the
day on this Monday. It's been a good day. We've
had some fun today. Thank you, and now it's time
for you to take us home with some closing remarks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let me see, I was thinking again of what I
could say to be encouraging to people. I have a
couple of poems that have kept me throughout my life
that I learned actually while I was pledging. Man, that
(00:32):
was the greatest thing that pledging gave me was besides
some friendships that I still have to this day, it
taught me so much that I needed to know at
a young age about surviving and thriving and hanging in there.
(00:53):
And I learned a couple of poems that have kept me.
And if you look them up, man, they're very, very valuable.
Not nothing replaces my spiritual life at all. And the
two aren't to be compared, but they are to be
appreciated on both levels. The first person one of the
(01:17):
strongest poems I learned was a poem called Invictus. And
in the poem it says the term gods with an S.
But I never say gods because there's only one, and
even the entire time I was pledging, I told them
I wasn't gonna say gods because and they didn't have them.
The brothers didn't have a problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
But the poem was great.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I haven't memorized, I don't haven't written down anywhere, so
y'all forgive me as I pull it up out of
my memory. But in Victors is something like this, out
of the night that covers me black as a pit,
from pole to pole. I think, whatever God may be
for my unconquerable soul, in the fail clutch of circumstance,
(02:03):
I have not winced nor cried aloud. And under the
bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloodied but unbowed. And
beyond this place of raft and tears looms but the
horror of the shade. And yet the minutes of the
years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not
(02:27):
how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll.
I am the master of my fate. I am the
captain of my soul. That poem in Victis has kept
me through a lot of troubling times. The other poem
(02:49):
that kept me was a poem that it has a
title of dunk quit, but the author is unknown. It's
an unknown author. If you look it up, just look
up the point don't quit. But it's been a staple
in my repertoire of things that I say to myself
(03:09):
in difficult times.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And it goes something like this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the
roads you're trudging seems all upheal, when your funds are
low and your debts are high, when you want to smile,
but you have to side when cares are pressing you
down a bit, rest if you must, but don't quit.
For life is queer with his twisting turns, as every
(03:36):
one of us who must sometimes learn, And many a
fellow has turned about when he might have won had
he stuck it out. So don't give up. Though the
pace seems slow. You may succeed with another blow. Often
the gold is nearer than it seems to a faint
and a faltering man. And often the struggle that has
(03:58):
given up when he might have captured the victor's cup,
and he learns too late, when the night came down,
how close he was to the golden crown.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And you never can tell how close you are.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It may be near when it seems afar, So stick
to the fight when your hardest hit. It's when things
seem worse that you mustn't quit. Those two poems right
there have kept me in some dark moments. Somebody made
me a T shirt the other day in the Cleveland
(04:33):
Cavalier colors of maroon and gold, and gave it to
me as a gift, and the T shirt said, I'm
a sixty two year old black man from Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What you want?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's sort of funny, man, because a lot of times
when people say and stuff, people who really know. I
say to people all the time, what you want from me?
You know, I'm only human. I'm subject to make mistakes,
I air, I get it wrong sometimes I'm not perfect.
I swing a lot, so I'm gonna hit a lot
(05:08):
of strikeouts. You know, when you swaying in the bat,
A lot of times you ain't gonna all of them
ain't gonna be hit. But I have such a sheer
number of at bats that it causes people to be
able to see a few more times than me failing.
But some people never You don't ever have to worry
about watching them fail because they're not attempting anything. So
(05:30):
if you're the person who's being criticized for your efforts.
You have to know that you gotta hang in there
because there's so many people that's criticizing you that's not
even making an effort. Now I'm a paraphrase another one,
but I'm paraphrasing this.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
This doesn't work exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It says 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 and timid souls in
the stands who know neither victory nor defeat. That one
has kept me too, because I realize that a lot
of people that are criticizing you are not even in
(06:12):
the same game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You win.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So when you're out there striving and you hustling and
you're trying to put it together, you're gonna make mistakes
and you're gonna get criticized.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But don't ever, don't ever, don't you ever give up.
Have a great day. Talk to God, he'd love to hear. Freddy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
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Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
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All right, Steve, here we are last break of the
day on this Monday. It's been a good day. We've
had some fun today. Thank you, and now it's time
for you to take us home with some closing remarks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let me see, I was thinking again of what I
could say to be encouraging to people. I have a
couple of poems that have kept me throughout my life
that I learned actually while I was pledging. Man, that
(00:32):
was the greatest thing that pledging gave me was besides
some friendships that I still have to this day, it
taught me so much that I needed to know at
a young age about surviving and thriving and hanging in there.
(00:53):
And I learned a couple of poems that have kept me.
And if you look them up, man, they're very, very valuable.
Not nothing replaces my spiritual life at all. And the
two aren't to be compared, but they are to be
appreciated on both levels. The first person one of the
(01:17):
strongest poems I learned was a poem called Invictus. And
in the poem it says the term gods with an S.
But I never say gods because there's only one, and
even the entire time I was pledging, I told them
I wasn't gonna say gods because and they didn't have them.
The brothers didn't have a problem with that at all.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
But the poem was great.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
I haven't memorized, I don't haven't written down anywhere, so
y'all forgive me as I pull it up out of
my memory. But in Victors is something like this, out
of the night that covers me black as a pit,
from pole to pole. I think, whatever God may be
for my unconquerable soul, in the fail clutch of circumstance,
(02:03):
I have not winced nor cried aloud. And under the
bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloodied but unbowed. And
beyond this place of raft and tears looms but the
horror of the shade. And yet the minutes of the
years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not
(02:27):
how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll.
I am the master of my fate. I am the
captain of my soul. That poem in Victis has kept
me through a lot of troubling times. The other poem
(02:49):
that kept me was a poem that it has a
title of dunk quit, but the author is unknown. It's
an unknown author. If you look it up, just look
up the point don't quit. But it's been a staple
in my repertoire of things that I say to myself
(03:09):
in difficult times.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And it goes something like this.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the
roads you're trudging seems all upheal, when your funds are
low and your debts are high, when you want to smile,
but you have to side when cares are pressing you
down a bit, rest if you must, but don't quit.
For life is queer with his twisting turns, as every
(03:36):
one of us who must sometimes learn, And many a
fellow has turned about when he might have won had
he stuck it out. So don't give up. Though the
pace seems slow. You may succeed with another blow. Often
the gold is nearer than it seems to a faint
and a faltering man. And often the struggle that has
(03:58):
given up when he might have captured the victor's cup,
and he learns too late, when the night came down,
how close he was to the golden crown.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
And you never can tell how close you are.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It may be near when it seems afar, So stick
to the fight when your hardest hit. It's when things
seem worse that you mustn't quit. Those two poems right
there have kept me in some dark moments. Somebody made
me a T shirt the other day in the Cleveland
(04:33):
Cavalier colors of maroon and gold, and gave it to
me as a gift, and the T shirt said, I'm
a sixty two year old black man from Cleveland, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
What you want?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It's sort of funny, man, because a lot of times
when people say and stuff, people who really know. I
say to people all the time, what you want from me?
You know, I'm only human. I'm subject to make mistakes,
I air, I get it wrong sometimes I'm not perfect.
I swing a lot, so I'm gonna hit a lot
(05:08):
of strikeouts. You know, when you swaying in the bat,
A lot of times you ain't gonna all of them
ain't gonna be hit. But I have such a sheer
number of at bats that it causes people to be
able to see a few more times than me failing.
But some people never You don't ever have to worry
about watching them fail because they're not attempting anything. So
(05:30):
if you're the person who's being criticized for your efforts.
You have to know that you gotta hang in there
because there's so many people that's criticizing you that's not
even making an effort. Now I'm a paraphrase another one,
but I'm paraphrasing this.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
This doesn't work exactly like this.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It says 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 and timid souls in
the stands who know neither victory nor defeat. That one
has kept me too, because I realize that a lot
of people that are criticizing you are not even in
(06:12):
the same game.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You win.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
So when you're out there striving and you hustling and
you're trying to put it together, you're gonna make mistakes
and you're gonna get criticized.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But don't ever, don't ever, don't you ever give up.
Have a great day. Talk to God, he'd love to hear. Freddy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary, void We're prohibited.
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, Visit Steve Harvey
fm dot com. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
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