Steve Harvey Life Changing Speech | Very Inspirational & Motivational

it's been important for me to empower my children but not only my children but thousands of young people across the country and education is the key for a lot of people but when I speak at the colleges and stuff I tell people number one thing in your world is not your education it's your dream so what you're dreaming bout y'all what you still dreaming about what does God still showing you in your imagination what are you so afraid of why would you not take that leap and go forward before you mess around and die why would you not go and see what God really got for you for you leaders word my life is faithful Bishop Jake's told me one time when you got favored on your life no matter what you thrown into you gonna always rise to the top I have been thrown into a lot but because of favor and grace I just keep I just keep showing up somehow man no matter what they do it so all of this that I have was really because of grace of God now I'm gonna tell you something you've got to have a tremendous work ethic to be successful in here you really do man if you want to be successful because listen it's gonna be a lot of trying time so you have to have a tremendous work ever but you've got to have faith that is a scripture that Albert Einstein took this course faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen so when I told you a minute ago you got to have a tremendous work ethic but you've got to have a lot of faith I talked to so many people who get old though like some of us are and they've lost their faith well faith is really simplistic faith is the substance of things hoped for all that mean is in the beginning you just hope something pop up you know you just kind of hope something happen for you I was hoping I would get on TV I wrote it on a piece of paper when I was teeing I want to be on TV the problem I had when I wrote it at 10 was I suffered from a severe stuttering problem I could not talk outside of my house so can you imagine when I wrote on a piece of paper I want to be on TV and turn to Eddie the first thing the little boy next door next to me asked me he did well how long is your TV show OB but when I wrote it on a paper it wasn't factual just hope you just gotta start with the hope faith is the substance of things that you're hopeful is just hope something joke there what happened in through Grace and favor he give you a couple of them things you hopeful and then you supposed to start believe indeed because nine turns in the faith but if you take this script your faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen what is the evidence of things not seen I just told it to you Albert Einstein said imagination is everything it's the preview to life's coming attraction but guess what your imagination really is it's the evidence of things not seen because your imagination you know why it's the evidence of things not seen because you'd only want to see it your imagination is actually God showing you a preview of a coming attraction that he has for you the moment you don't believe in your imagination you negate what he got for you your imagination is to preview to life's coming attraction it is the evidence of things not seen because Kay nobody see with you your problem is you keep telling your imagination to the wrong people see if you want to kill a big dream tell it to a small-minded person it's dead how many times man have you had a tremendous idea something you thought was the one and you wouldn't told it to your loved ones and your so-called friends and they shot it down I mean you was convinced that it was just oh man I just came to you and you told it to me and they shot it down and you thought since there was your loved ones and their friends and they got your best interests at heart you believed you was wrong they taught you let them talk you out of what God got for you some of y'all still sitting here with the ambition of opening a business one day but you scared to go start the business cuz you got a job and you got bills which people got feelings everybody got bills hell I got bills you can you who you ready don't somebody suffer I got something with your brain right now you're gonna let the fact that you got some bills stop you from opening the business the thing to god then put in your imagination so you're gonna squash that cuz you got bills everybody got bills your real life is in your imagination can you grab what I'm telling you so I don't know what you thought I was gonna say to you I'm just a real dude I don't even have the education you all had I flunked out of school I swung I ain't got no education I don't use four syllable words the only phone syllable word I know is my bank account what I'm sharing with you is stuff that everybody can apply today if you're sitting in here thinking that you're too old to listen what Steven hell I'm 60 I'm 60 years old but I still rely on my imagination see if you think you're too old and make it let me give you a prime example Colonel Sanders Colonel Sanders has been frying chicken his whole life he was telling everybody here the best chicken in the world ain't nobody believing they turned him down everywhere kind of Sanders didn't get a franchise - he was in his sixties Kentucky Fried Chicken sailboat chicken than anybody in the world today so if you sitting there thinking cuz you got a little gray on you are you too late as long as God waking you up in the morning that's the sign that he ain't through with you so what you trippin for you sittin up in here like like God came through done for you cuz you 60 man you know what I'm asking God for right now and I'm 60 if you can see my vision board it would be blown away cuz I got enough right now I really know but I ain't in the meat business I'm in the world business ain't nothing wrong with wanting something but going down to these churches y'all sittin up in here going down to let keeping you in neat little boxes God got a big life for you the only present ain't get down the look and I love Church don't get me wrong I'm not knocking Church don't you don't don't tweet that Stevie don't care for the church no more I didn't say that but don't go down there memorize all these scriptures and then don't apply them to your life that's what I'm talking about quit going down there just to go and just get a couple of scriptures and apply them to you the smallest scripture I ever read changed my life description real soul you have not because you ask do you know the difference that that could make in your life I'm just giving you real talking up so you have not called you ass when the last time you really ask you for something or do you keep making me crazy that's inside the confines of your picture when you're gonna get outside of that didn't I just tell you God in in your picture didn't I just tell you healing in your job title the lifeguard God for you is in your imagination why you still imagine this stuff why you keep dreaming of a summer home why you keep dreaming of retired leaving your grandkids but something that daddy's not where I think about my grandkids I got some TV shows called I only need one one show pay me enough money I do not live my life in the confines of what anybody says to me I let my imagination go and now imagination is a preview to life's coming attraction but what that really means is is God showing you a preview of what he has for you so now if you have not cause you asinine do you understand if you up your ask he has to up his gift this period this is simple stuff that anybody can apply you ain't even got a had no degree to do this you don't even have to have no money to do this you can start this today and change your whole game because you're gonna need grace and favor anyway listen I have asked God for some tremendous stuff everything he hasn't given to me it's on the way I have no doubt about it why would he not see I tell you what really prompted his thinking in me when I was homeless I lived in a car for three years I've made some decisions in my life man and threw myself off a cliff my decision October 8 1985 I walked into a comedy club for the first time had never heard of a comedy club all my life I wanted to be on - I signed up for the following week because I just wanted to see what the comedian's did man I wanted I was sauced and live stand-up for the first time they had ten acts supposed to go up nine of a winner the tenth guy got scared and went ran out the door so I had signed up for the final week the guy says listen we lost our 10th act we got to go to the phones we're gonna go to the week from next week if Steve Harvey's here come on up now and clown start clapping I was eating a chicken wing and drinking some grapefruit juice and I turned to the girl and I said it's a dude in here got the same name I got she say you the stupidest bastard I don't know so I ran up onstage I'm doing I don't even know what to do but I just started talking about boxing and stuff that happened to me audience was hauling laughing they bought all ten of us back up on stage they had a clap off I warned the clap off I warned $50 I cry from Cayuga Falls to Cleveland the girl kept saying why are you crying a table $50 I said now you understand just way more than 50 this dis what'd I do she said what you mean that's what you do dis just your first time you don't understand something happened to me I won't ever tonight I went to work the next day October 9th 1985 and quit my job now I don't recommend that you do it that way because two years later I was homeless because the first year comedy I made $3,400 the next year I made 4800 and the third year I made five thousand three hundred dollars I got a wife a set of twins I'm sitting every dollar I got to them so I tried to live on 50 $75 a week gas was 38 7 gallon back then I just stayed in one car so I lived in my car for 3 years 3 years I lived in my car and what happened was I just said man so I used to fish all the time I'm a fisherman so I used to stop at lakes and ponds and just fish and every night every month I get runoff from somebody's leg hey get away from here hey move along that's not yours hey stop fishing here I just get run off and he didn't understand at one time I had fish on the line they said you got fish on that line I say yeah throw him back I had to throw him back I thought you stop at rest areas with doing the cast iron grills I kept charcoal in my car I start a fire that he fished that some days I wouldn't need so that they thought I was just fishing but I was eating so I said one day I said man you know what one day man [Music] I'm by myself piece of dude so fast-forward god bless I get on TV when I'm 38 I'm on Showtime at the Apollo lord have mercy they gave me my money I saved my money up I say $250,000 I said I'm going to get me some man I went to Texas and I'm about to buy some man but before I went to buy the land I was curious I just had how much land is on earth how many acres is on earth because you know it's not going to change your God lets you fly God that you dive on the walk God don't let you be can't make dirt so I looked it up it's roughly over just a little bit over 36 million acres of lay 36 billion acres of land so I've just got a little bit more curious and I said well how many people on earth I looked it up and it was about six billion people on earth so I did some Steve Harvey thinking I said okay if there's thirty six billion acres of land and it's about six billion people on earth everybody ought to have six acres of land I just mean you know I just just think so ask God could I have six acres that's all I wanted because if you know the one thing I wanted I didn't care if I put a house on her than nothing I just wanted to be a staying somewhere and couldn't nobody run me off I see a piece of land in Texas so beautiful I couldn't believe it had rolling hills had a pond on it where I could fish dude took me over I look at the land and I'm looking I said man this is great right here I said sir how much is this right here he said well it's about six hundred thousand dollars man I ain't got that kind of money he said well how much do you have I got 250 thousand I said well let me think about it man he said let me think about it and I was standing there and then I stopped us in sir can I ask you a question man how many acres of land is dead he said this is six acres six six years ago I just asked God just give me six say I didn't want a whole lot of acres I just wanted my cut just give me my six and so I said ain't is crazy so I thought about it I said man what can we work out right before I got ready said the guy that took me over to said Steve let me show you something right quick he took me to his house he said let me show you it took me over showed me this land and it was massive it had three lakes on it had rolling hills that had trees it was unbelievable man I said man this is incredible I said no how much is this he said this 16 acres I say hey man I ain't got that kind of money let me go on back over here to this do where I can Mike can cut a deal he said let me manage something what was you gonna give that land over there I said well I hadn't worked it out yet cuz all I got is $250,000 he said we'll listen I'm in a little bit of a tie right now said if you can bring me 250,000 cash back to my Reed I give you this 16 acres I showed up next day [Applause] $250,000 16 acres see that's Grayson favor right there that's what that is so my first piece of land was 250 acres so I said man this is the land that I'm gonna save for my family I'm gonna fish on the rest of my life I will be an old man so then I got to thinking I said hold up man you you have asked for six years ago he showed me six but he gave me 16 now let me tell you something I'm so busy now I don't even get to go to that ranch I never can go and I thought I was gonna be fishing and save it for my kids wrestling God I had no plan for me that's the wrench that I had my Miller example I bring a thousand black boys out there with a thousand single mothers and that was the purpose of that rich I never go that efficient see that's what I wrote it I thought that's what it was for but God got another plane his way is way bigger than y'all you can't even see his way but you got to start the hustle you got to give God something to work with look if you start hustling and grinding he'll fill it up for you but if you ain't got no hustle and no grind he can't fill it up so Gus what I don't ever go there to use that land for fishing or nothing but I'm changing boys lives over there [Music] you

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Length: 18min 49sec (1129 seconds)

Published: Wed May 13 2020