STEVE HARVEY MOTIVATION - 60 Minutes To Transorm Your Life - Best Motivational Speeches Ever

[Music] fear is a very very real emotion there's not a person alive that does not experience fear on some level don't you believe that for a minute i face it all the time fear is so big and so prevalent today nothing produces more failure than does fear it is the fear of failure that freezes people before they even start it is the fear of failure that causes you not to want to deal with the rejection and the potential hurt that failure causes so fear cripples you on so many levels but how is it that some people somehow manage to get by anyway what is it that you can do that would help you overcome whatever fear you're facing well here's what i was taught and this has helped me in my life my career my family my jobs my ambition everything you overcome fear with your dreams i want y'all to listen to me closely now you overcome fear with your dreams steve how my dreams gonna make me overcome my fear because i want you to listen to me because the dream is everything the bible says a man without a dream or vision shall perish the dream is everything see if you have no dreams and visions you'll perish you will die in fear you will die sitting somewhere in fear without dreams or visions dreams are the counterpoint to all fear i want you to dream so big i want you to want something so incredible i want you to dream of having something that's so spectacular that if it doesn't happen you would be miserable man if i don't make this dream come true i'm gonna be miserable i want you to dream so big that not reaching your dreams is unacceptable [Music] you cannot live in this world without the dream and the vision you can live in this world without your mother your father your brother you can live in this world without a wife a husband you can live in this world without a lot of things but what you cannot live in this world without is dreams and visions you will perish without those things you have to dream of something and want something that's what keeps pushing you forward so if you want to overcome your fear you do it with your dreams and here's the side note god is in to make your dream come true business ain't you do it all the time i'm telling you man god does it all the time he makes people's dreams come true what are you dreaming about explore what you're really dreaming about so you can lose your fear you're afraid to open your business because if your business fail you'll lose the money you save and you won't open your business because you might lose your job when your boss find out dream bigger dream of what opening that business could do for you the feeling of freedom that you would have the the extra money you could make what you could do for your family the things you could leave a legacy of maybe your dream ain't big enough maybe you got the dream of owning a large couple maybe a mom-and-pop store maybe you dream of climbing the corporate ladder maybe you're dreaming of becoming the supervisor or the ceo or the company you got to dream so big that if this dream don't happen you'll be miserable once you can do that you can press through your feet you can move forward you can get on with it i'm telling y'all i was taught this dream so big that you can't imagine your life without living your dream let me teach you something how many of you have a dog how many of you have ever had a dog that had a flea on them that's everybody you ever seen a flea one of the smallest insects really small on the smallest insects but for his height and size and flea has the highest vertical leap in nature for an insect a flea can jump has a 36 inch vertical a flea man can come 36 inches off the ground his vertical is 36 the average person can't do that but a flea can jump 36 inches off the ground if you capture the fleet and you put him in a man-age job and you put the lid on it the flea know one thing i got a 36-inch vertical so here he go he started jumping but he gonna hit himself on that lid cause he got that lid on it but after a while after getting knocked down so many times the flea makes an adjustment so now the flea only jumps just to where he don't get knocked back down he got 36 vertical but since this lid is on his environment got him now jumping nowhere near what he can capture some mo fleas and put him in there they got 36 verticals but then they start jumping they find out they keep getting knocked down they start doing what the other fleas is doing next thing you know i got a job full of fleas and i ain't even using a 36 inch vertical because they got a lid on the job then fleas have babies then babies is born into the conditions of the environment so now guess what the flea is born with a 36 inch vertical but because he see his mommy and daddy and all his cousins and friends jumping just barely to the roof you know what he do he duplicates that behavior the flea never reaches his potential until you take the top off of your mayonnaise jar you gonna duplicate your surroundings if you take a oak tree seed and you put it in a two foot pot that seed will never become the oak tree that oak trees are capable of becoming because it's gonna get stifled by the two foot pot now check this out ain't nothing wrong with the seed seed just fell prey to the environment you are a seed from god god made you in his likeness he big he vast don't you allow your environment to dictate the oak tree that you become because ain't nothing wrong with your seed all of y'all got this wonderful gift that he gave you at birth all y'all got one you better believe that now don't die with this gift and don't never use it all y'all got this wonderful gift but you got to use it take your seed take your gift get away from these people that's in your life that ain't doing nothing get away from people in your life that's hating get away from your family members that ain't never opened the business that ain't get away from your family members they ever followed their dreams get away from your family members they never been nowhere but to the family reunion ain't never been to a beach get away from them get away from them i had to do it when i told everybody i was getting into comedy man oh lord have mercy you can't get into comedy you ain't even funny how you gonna make money telling jokes now in the beginning it looked like they was right but i never gave up all i did was identified this gift i wrote all of my visions down i read them every morning and every night i instilled them in my head and every time i met somebody they say hey man what you trying to do i would tell them one of my visions somebody would always say to me you know i know a guy that's selling them things right there you ought to talk to him i started scratching stuff off my vision board my vision board's so vast now if i showed you what was on it you wouldn't even believe it because i dreamed so big i want so big because the god i serve is big he's not a small god he's a really really big guy he does really really big stuff and i expect him to do really really big stuff for me if he'd have done it for oprah if he'd have done it for the obamas whoever got why i can't have this hill i'm going to do better with it than all of them to me but why you can't have that that's how you get what you want in life now you don't have to believe me but here's the deal if you keep doing what you've been doing you're going to keep getting what you've been getting if i just told you a different way to go about it you don't need no money i just gave you some scriptures you could try and some principles if somebody who had come from the bottom and got to this position i'm in told me that this is the way i would try if i was you i would try that i bet you it'll work there's a difference between your passion and your gift your passion is something that you enjoy doing like i'm passionate about golf it ain't what i do it's i suck it's just not what i do i'm gifted at words i'm gifted at that so before you strike off into script writing determine your gift whatever it is you're trying to do you must first determine if it is your gift and don't pursue things that you're passionate about pursue the thing that you are gifted at all of you are gifted every last one of you god gave you a gift at birth all of you god never created a soul without giving him a gift all of you have a gift your job is to discover the gift it's very simple it's the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that's your god-given gift anything else you're doing you're wasting your time unless you ain't no singer the you sang it for now i don't care how good you sound at the church church let everybody sing they let anybody go up there and say i wasn't walking by myself with the lord man why is your saying but they not gifted discover the gift so you should ask yourself first is writing the gift is writing the gift now the writing may not lead you to screen writing or movies it may lead you to books but the first thing you need to do is writing your gift if it's your passion you're wasting your time you're going to write a book that don't nobody like but you i was watching joel osteen on tv one day and he said people's opinion of you is none of your business nor should you make it yours you you get in a lot of trouble worrying about what somebody think about you when really what difference do it make whether they wrong or right what what difference do it make the majority of people who have a negative viewpoint of you really don't even know you what i found about being successful is it wasn't me who changed it was people's opinion of me that changed you know i got more but and i'm the same dude but your opinion of me has changed now you think i think i'm all that when in actuality i really am humbled by all this i really can't believe god let me have it i really do understand that i am here but by the grace of god i'm clear about that i i am so clear about that it ain't me it's not me see i know the decisions i made and i know how it got me where i got to i know how my life turned out when i gave it over to him i gave my life to god now i may not be the christian you think i ought to be but once again your opinion of me it doesn't matter to me i've just learned not to allow people opinion of me to bother me or stop me publicly man i've been ridiculed and ate alive on that internet you this he think he this i can't stand him he does he then you know i've been everything on in here i don't care when you get through reading that stuff cut your tv on turn it to almost any channel you want to seven days a week the little dude that you keep hating on that god i serve he ain't hating me yet he ain't hating me not in that time and i've discovered something look man what god got for you nobody no hater no employer no co-worker can stop nothing god has for you god is in the blessing business but better than that he's in the forgiving business see if god wasn't a forgiving god i'm not here today but god had to forgive me over and over and over and over and over and over and over i can't count the times he didn't forgave me see i just never let my failures define me see when you make a mistake just get them go again what you tripping for i made public mistakes man let me tell you something man when i oh miss universe i have to apologize i took that myself you know how many people wrote me off you know how many letters i got from tv execs we're proud of you for doing the right thing but oh my god oh my god a horrible mistake i hope you're gonna be okay you hope i'm gonna be my career over cause of that people wrote me off you know what i just got up i got up i kept coming to work i just kept coming i kept showing up cause eventually what you gonna do the time has come you know my father used to always tell me something you're gonna either get over it or die man you got two choices you can get past it or you can die man now if you want to die mad carry your ass on and just die mad but god forgave me so i got up and i kept going your mistakes don't define you life is ten percent what happened to you is ninety percent what you do about it i just stood up like i had some dignity and i just kept performing kept telling jokes kept entertaining people to the point now well it don't even matter that pageant is the biggest pageant they've ever had everybody tune in and see what i'm gonna say this year just just keep living y'all keep waking up in the morning i'm in ephesians 3 20 all day long i expect god to do exceedingly and abundantly over all i think i asked because i honor him his blessings will chase me down and overtake me i will be in the right place at the right time people will go out of their way to be good to me because that is my declaration as a servant of the lord i'm his child i am an imperfect soldier for christ that's what i am i'm an imperfect soldier for christ i'm in the army of the lord but i but i have a role to play success is not a comfortable procedure it is a very uncomfortable thing to attempt so you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful start putting some pressure on put some pressure on yourself get out here and get about it look i'd love to sugarcoat this thing for you i'd love to tell you look you can go out here and get rich do a couple of things damn that ain't happening you gotta get real doggish you gotta get downright funky if you wanna make it now like i was telling you before if you wanna be ordinary you ain't even gotta listen to me just go on about your business if you think ordinary's cool ain't no problem it's some really really wonderful ordinary people but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you're gonna have to do extra you put extra on top of extraordin ordinary and you come up with extraordinary it's no other way i'm sorry but here's the fact all of you have extraordinary capabilities all of you you have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category rich people don't sleep eight hours a day that's a third of your life you're never 24 hours in a day you cannot be sleep eight hours a day you can't live in l.a and wake up at eight o'clock in the morning it's eleven o'clock on the east coast the stock market been open two hours they already making decisions about your life and your ass with sleep [Music] the bible says he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night if you're not happy with your life it's because you're not living in your gift and you are decided to pursue a passion but i can't win no money i can't make the cut i'm a 16 handicap that's on a good date [Music] people i wanted to play in the nba when i was growing up i wanted to play in the league that was my goal to play in the nba but i wasn't gifted at it though i mean there's a couple of problems if i ran at full speed i didn't had a ball and when i shot it it ain't go in a lot of times now you put that together you can get you can quit talking about the nba my gift was i had the ability and i didn't know it at a young age but i had the ability to take information instantly and transform it into comedy i didn't know that was a gift i just thought it was something i did it got me in more trouble than i've ever it it has been the biggest curse because when you're young you don't know what to give you're just doing it now as i got older this gift has transformed a little bit i can take information and turn it into inspiration i can take information and turn it into motivation and the reason i'm here today is because my life has been jacked up and i have learned and mastered something i've mastered the principles of success you can't tell me i can't that's what i've done i've mastered the principles of success i know them by heart inside out you can't tell me nothing about it about success i cannot help but intertwine faith in that so if you don't really care for the faith piece you ain't gonna really care for me because i cannot tell you how i made it without telling you about god or the principles every principle of success it comes from god almighty it's in whatever religious reading you read i don't that's not my business what you believe in you just got to believe in some i told a group earlier i don't care what you call god you can call god allah jehovah yahweh you can call him whatever you want to call him just call him though it's his name my business what you call him i don't care but i cannot stand here and talk to you about my road to success i cannot inspire these young people that i tried to get to early today and not intertwine faith so i'm sorry if that ain't your thing but y'all didn't pay me now so here i am i got the money wide to my account so here it is take a deep breath uh i tell people all the time you know and i was talking to young people and what i try to get people to understand is i don't care who you are in the room if you if you got to a place in your life where you felt like you know life should have been more for you or you're trying to figure your life out there's one simple way to get it done god when he created all of us he never created an individual without bestowing a gift you know and god put that gift in all of us some of you are gifted in teaching networking counseling sharing life saving some of your caretakers but you gifted if you work in your gift you now find your purpose in life a real meaning for waking up in the morning you know a lot of people you you know people that get them go to work in the morning they just miserable they hate driving to work they hate their job they hate their co-workers because they ain't doing what they want to do what they like now that that's not your fault that's their fault but god when he created all of us he gave all of us a gift we were born with a gift at birth god ain't made nobody and gave him a gift now the thing of it is if you stop looking at your gift as running jumping singing dancing then you can get on with your life but so many people are pursuing their passion instead of pursuing their guilt most of you have mastered the principles of success but when you're talking to young people you're talking to some people that ain't mastered that aspect yet it's our job to teach young people the principles of success they got to learn from your mistakes see i messed my life up so i can turn around talk about it one day i've been divorced twice i've lost everything i own in my life twice i lost it all again in 2005 at the end of 2005 i had 1700. in 2005 i had made millions of dollars i had seventeen hundred dollars at the end of 2005. i've been homeless i lived in a car for three years i learned some principles and i started applying so i'm a little bit different christian than most people right here i just happen to be a little bit more real about it you know uh i don't really know where a lot of scriptures are in the bible i just happen to know what's in there and what ain't in there and i had a lady the other day on my show i had slipped up and cussed on one of the commercial breaks because i've been working on my cousin but uh that's not really working for me i have just come to the conclusion that i'm just gonna be a cussing christian i've been trying to get it and shake it but it ain't working for me man and i accidentally cussed on the commercial break and the lady i could tell she was a little put off by and i didn't mean to you know i don't want to be offensive to people but you know i was just talking naturally and she just stood up and said i have a question for you mr heart she said so how's your walk going with christ i thought about it i said well i walk tall i walk strong with long strides and a slight limp and that's how i walk now if you ain't got no limp to your walk congratulations mine has a slight limp to it and every now and then the flaws that i have come out see between me and a lot of people i happen to be famous so my flaws have a microphone and a spotlight and an internet connected to it you might can make your mistake at the house and don't nobody know nothing about it but i got people watching me all day long so what i've learned in this journey along the way of having my life as twisted as it was i've learned the principles of success i've learned how to get back up how to fall and fail get written off say you ain't gonna ever be nothing i've learned how to start over i've learned how to take one heap of all my winnings and risk it on one turn or pitch and toss lose and start again in my beginnings and never once breathe a word about my loss yeah i've learned stuff like this that's rudyard kipling in case you didn't recognize that little poem i stole that that's when i was paying a little bit attention in college i didn't get the degree but i was listening just a little bit and when i talk to you i try to uh to get people to identify with these principles the greatest thing that you could do in your life i told the kids early you know we're at a college institute so it's kind of trips people out a little bit when i say this and i tell them how important it is to get your education yada yada yada cause we had a college that's what i got to say but then i turn right around i tell them the truth though the most important thing in your life ain't your education the most important thing in your life is your dream see the scripture says a man without a dream or vision shall perish don't say nothing about education now you got to have one if you're going to climb to certain jobs and go in the corporate letter and be in banking and be in finance and all this stuff y'all doing but it's the dream that propels you look man we got to break this thing down real simple for people someday quit acting bulgy like you've been rich all your life that's what kill me you know i come to these functions everybody sit up they lean back in their chair they speak proper grammar they get their nose up you act like you had money all your life i ain't have money all my life i come into some money but i've been scrapping and hustling and grinding and trying to get over and so have you but then you get here and you don't have no memory of that because now your life is fixed and so now when you talk to young people you you don't talk to them from the perspective or you made mistakes too you don't talk to young people like hey been there done that i smoke weed in college too man i know i know where you at you don't want to tell them that yeah clinton smoke weed he the president of the united states i'm gonna probably say a lot of stuff i already know that i'm not coming back next year that's clear i ain't got no problem see that's why i give my money wide to me because i already know i'm gonna mess around i say something i'm gonna throw somebody into something because i see a couple of looks on your face right now but i don't really care i'm out of here i'm gonna get on this jet i'm gonna go down here my wife died in miami man i'm gonna sleep with my wife tonight i don't care what y'all do i was telling you about your gift this is how you save yourself a lot of trouble and this may apply to some adults in this world maybe not your gift is the thing that you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort that's your god-given gift you ain't got to trip on it wonder about it it's what you do better than anything else now whether you've chosen to make that your life's work or not that's your choice but i got news for you if you don't ever pursue that you ain't gonna ever be happy it's some unhappy people in this room today because there's some people in here doing what people expect them to do and doing what was required of them and they just got locked into it now you got bills in the family and you don't really want to pursue your dream so now you got the job you just don't ride it all the way out there ain't nothing wrong with that if your job is what you gifted at doing this man is going to retire this year but he's been in the education of young people's minds he's been shaping young people's mind for 30 years like that that's what he was gifted to do if you're sitting up in here and you ain't happy and you're in misery it's cause you ain't pursued your gift and i'm telling them young people over there with them blue shirts on and them stripe ties find out what your gift is and pursue it with everything in you because ain't nothing worse than getting a degree and you don't even want it after you get it because a degree ain't nothing but a piece of paper hanging on a wall now it signifies that you have the ability to complete a task but your life is made up of what you do with it life is ten percent what happens it's 90 of what you do about it you got to do something with your life man that makes your heart beat in the morning when you wake up see people ask me i'll tell how you do all these jobs dude cause i like all my job you cut your radio on 240 times a year i do a four hour live radio show how you do that every morning well the main reason they got a nice check but other than that i wake up in the morning i give people some inspiration i play music and i tell jokes okay boom i like doing that then i go to a talk show i live in chicago eight months after year 34 weeks i tape 180 talk shows in chicago how you do that every day cause i love doing it then i go to atlanta i live in atlanta and in nine weeks i take 200 episodes of family feud man how you tape all them show once again they have a check attached to this but i love what i do if you cut your tv on it's obvious that i love what i do i'm always smiling because god has given me the life of my dreams because i'm living in the gift he gave me if you live in your gift man it changes your life do something about your guilt listen to me i don't care what job you got now if it's something that really burns on the inside of you you ought to go do that i don't care how old you are how come you think kentucky fried chicken how come you think that man on the side why you think he old cause his recipe got discovered when he was 68. that ain't the picture of the colonel when he was 35 but he been frying chicken you know you can't just wake them start frying chicken he been frying chicken with this secret recipe for years it took him a long time for a click but he kept frying chicken man till he became the biggest chicken joint in the world you can't go nowhere and don't see kentucky fried chicken that ain't real chicken but when he was living it was real chicken though it really was chicken it was the actual parts if you peel that skin off that kentucky fried chicken you're in for a surprise it don't look nothing like but he hit it when is it too late to hit it when is it really too late to hit the jackpot when is it when you 60 that's too late you don't want to be rich then what you're 65 too late for you to be rich when is it too late to hit it man put some spark in your life have something to wake up about to make your heart beat in the morning have a joyous spirit when you wake up in the morning here's another principle of success i'ma tell you what rich people talk about all the time you know rich people talk about all time they talk about money all the time all the principles of successes in the bible see a man is as he thinks so what you think excuse the grammar but that's what you is don't tell it make better sense bad grammar makes better sense sometimes if a man is as he thinking then what you think is what you is that make real good sense to me see ya i like to keep it where people remember stuff i say so rich people you know what they do to talk about money now when you talk about money around people they get tight because they don't want to hear the money well money is not everything and and money money can't buy you happy they ain't got no money money might not buy you happiness but it parked you right in front of happy house you can get out rang double see if happy home there's nothing wrong with mother people so many things have been said over the years but rich people get together they talk about money they talk about business all the time there's nothing wrong with that see we we go to church and we learn the wrong thing you know what messed me up man when i was little i went to church in cleveland you know and a preacher would always say he says hard for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven as it is for a camel to get through the eye of a needle now me and the rest of the ignorant members we thought that you was trying to take a needle with sewing thread and push a camel through it all the people in my church collectively decided they didn't want to be rich because they wanted to go to heaven i was sitting there 10 year old i wasn't really buying into this because i was trying to figure out how i was going to get this camel into this hole because i didn't know what they was talking about because i wanted to be rich because this poverty was i was allergic to it i itched all the time and i just came from being pole you know i just you just find just be digging in yourself sometimes cause you po po poverty is uncomfortable first of the month come your whole butt tighten up just like somebody's squeezing lemon juice down the crack of your behind cause it's the first of the month all this stuff is due that's your butt shut just tighten it up cause you ain't got the money why would i not want no money i live in the hood i won't out i need money to get out but at my church they say this is hard for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven as is what cameron will get through to have a needle so i bought into that i was about 30 i'm almost 38. i was in hollywood i was driving down the street and ran up in the dining room he was coming out of the studio on sunset i was in the truck smoking a cigar i saw donnie i said amen what's happening he said hey steve man it was one of the first years i had hosted celebration of gospel and um i was gonna quit hosting celebration the gospel because i didn't like the gospel community because they didn't like me you know backstage they'd be saying stuff like i don't know why he is hosting our gospel show he ain't saved i don't know what y'all talking about i'm i'm here for the check i'm let's be clear about this i've been in church my whole life but you know i got i ain't living no perfect life and i wasn't but you know i was my life at the time and i was going quitting i was telling donny i was thinking about quit he said man why are you gonna quit i was telling you man i said man i'm just confused right now man i said i don't get it i said man i'm thinking about going back to church man but uh you know you know i want to go to heaven but man i'm making the finish start making this money down here and it just don't jive with christianity he said what you mean and i told him what the preaching that it's hard for a man to get through the kingdom of heaven as is for a camel through the alvin needle so donny looked at me a little confused because you know he's a pastor and i was just telling him you know but i'm trying to find a way to get the camel a needle he said steve that's not what it means i said what does it mean he says in the middle east a needle is a ark that is stuck in the sand that looks like a wishbone on the chicken and they have them to entryways sometimes and when a camel approaches the needle in order for the camel to get through the needle he has to kneel and crawl through the needle and then the camel gets back up he said that's what god meant i said you mean they ain't talking about a sewing needle you said fool you can't put a camel through a sewing needle after that i said i gotta go make me some money i just humble myself before god like i'm going through the needle and he ought to let me in but i'm going in with some money though i uh became friends with oprah winfrey because um obvious reasons we ain't gonna keep saying that but she's a very successful mother a very kind person and everybody get a bad rap on the internet you know she thinks she did too well you know a lot of people shooting at the thing about haters man haters kick you when they down and they throw at you when you're up and they just do it all damn day they're just haters you got them on your job you got to meet at your church you got to know you got to they just hate it they just hate this haters because they ain't got nothing else to do they want to be you they can't so here come they hate it and i don't mind hate as long as they throw him cause i'm usually up i you can throw up at me i don't address you now i was talking to oprah one time and she said i did a life class with her this past year and she said steve i never knew you had a vision board she said you believe in that this is the first time we had a serious conversation i said oh bro how i'm not gonna believe in that every successful person i know has a vision board or they have their goals written down you can't do it without writing it down when you write it down it's a symbol of faith see i was telling this story earlier about writing it down you know teacher we were in the uh sixth grade you know ask us uh to write on a piece of paper we came in from someone what you want to be when you grow up so everybody feel like the paper put your name on it had to write this one thing in 1968. so i wrote i want to be on tv because nobody had told me i couldn't i was ten my vision was wide open so i wrote i want to be on tv she collected all the papers she started going around the room naming everybody name had everybody stand up and she read what they wanted to be barbara want to be a nurse johnny want to be a basketball player robert want to own a gas station cindy want to be a doctor she got to me she waited last now i had never gotten a gold star before my all of my years of school and she asked me to stand and when i stood she said little stevie come to the front of the class and i'm thinking to myself this is it this is the gold star morning i've been waiting 10 years for this i ain't never got to start before this is the day so i started walking to the front i'm skinny i got my brother's clothes on because we were poor i got up there and she said steve let me ask you something what did you write on your paper i said i want to be on tv she said and why did you write that on your paper i said because that was our assignment for today [Music] and then she said what you write that on the paper folk now i'm thinking to myself judging by the tone of this conversation this might not be the gold star moment i thought it was gonna be so i started cowering down and she said so why did you write it on the paper and i said because you asked us to voice is really soft she said do you know anybody on tv anybody in this school ever been on tv i said no any of your relatives been on tv i said no ma'am she said take this paper i'm gonna call your mama when you go home i'm gonna tell you being a smart aleck in this class now you take this paper and you come back with something more believable on it so she pinned the note on me and i had to go home my mom was waiting on me because she called the house so my mother said what you doing up at that school being a smart aleck i said mama i just did what the teacher told me she read you know she said what you write this on your paper i said because the lady asked me what i wanted to be i won't be on tv she said i'm telling your daddy when you get home well my father was the executioner my mother was the ward and he was the executioner and i knew when he got home i was going to get my ass hooked so excuse me i'm sorry i slipped out i didn't really like that i was going to get my butt whipped and so when a father came home she told my father look what steve wrote on this paper so he read the paper he said uh what's going on here says steve up at that school act like a smart act that teacher didn't ask him what he wanted to be and he didn't put i want to be on tv my father read the paper he said what's wrong with that i started thinking uh oh a reprieve so he said boy go in your room i'll be in there in a minute and i got my spankings in the room so i went on in there getting ready him and my mother had an argument my father came in the room he said boy what you write this on your paper for i said cause i want to be on tv he said what she wants you to write on the paper i said like a basketball player or a policeman he said put that on paper take it up to the school and give it to that dream killing heifer so i write it he said now take your paper he said before you go to bed tonight now this is my father now with a third grade education my father was a sharecropper in alabama he said read your paper every night before you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning read your paper before you go to school read your paper every day and read your paper every night i took my paper to the school and i turned it in it took me until i was 38 years old but i finally i got on tv the devil don't care about you the devil wants to keep you from your destiny that's his one job satan got one job to keep you from your destiny the devil don't ever want you to be what god created you to be so guess what when you discover your gift and you think i'm about to make a move and go be what god created me to be then he'll go the devil you got this job over here you gonna lose your 401 k once you get your paper straight you can skip all of this you can get yourself started in the process man but you got to quit letting the devil keep you from your destiny by tying it to this little job you got cause he tricky with it now he got you thinking you gonna mess your credit up if you quit your job what you mean mess your credit up you over extended now you got good credit but you can't buy nothing else with it if your card max out at 5 000 and you got 4090 on it where we at come on y'all you're gonna have to make a choice but you can't let the devil fool you he trying to keep you from being who god made you to be i'm yeah look man i don't know if i'm getting through to you but i want you to hear me i do man look i wish everybody before they died could experience what it feel like to wake up and do what you was born to do it's so cool man it's so cool if you've been dreaming of opening that business you should start the process don't try to figure out how to make the business make a million dollars just start the process see if you make one step he'll make two but he can't make his two unless you make your one so you got to start fill out the application go get the patent send in the paperwork get your federal id number do something man start creating the website let your job sponsor your dreams take some of your check money quit playing one of them bills take that money and start your website what is you talking about now if you okay marshall money and sellers what is you paying them for they finally be out of business take whatever money you owe kmart and see us take that money buy your business cards take one of your bills one time instead of paying it start your website but start if you make one step he'll make two and don't worry about where you going with it just get started he'll show you the way to go because he wants you to get to your destiny but he got to make sure that you want to get to your destiny first if you tell him you want to get to your destiny that god you serve he's he gonna show you how to do it you can believe that don't forget to pray don't be ashamed to pray and don't ever be too proud to pray cause prayer prayer changes things stay right here on faith street y'all the box you asked for is coming everything on my vision board i get i i put i built on my house one time my wife wanted a special kind of car and i built the garage the extra garage on the house she came out there and saw them she said steve what are you doing i said i'm building an extra garage she says steve we got enough cars what do you need with another garage because don't worry about it two years went by i had been looking for this car i went to dealerships they said sir there are none in that color i see she want a white one i said so i went to the dealership i said i want you to get this car in for my wife said sir there are none in the country and none being made i said okay but when the car come in could you accept it into your dealership and call me when you get here he said sir i didn't told you i can pull it up on the computer there are no cars in that color that make a model do you want another color i said no i'm a wife or white she said sir we don't have that i say i've already built the garage [Music] i've already built the garage all my garages have chandeliers in them i don't have doors that go over all my cars have chandeliers hanging over and i have marble floors in my garage because i like i like stuff like that because i saw it one time so i said i've already i've already built the garage he said sir there are no cars like that anywhere in the computer base i said i just need for you when the car come in so a year went by i said any word on the car he said no i've called the factory they're not even making anymore in that color i said okay i'm looking for this color right here he said sir we don't had it i said i'm gonna give it to her for her birthday october 10th 2016. she said he said sir that's impossible i said no it's not no it's not it's just the card that i'm asking for in a particular color how that's impossible he said sir i can't find the car i asked you to i asked you when he come through with you accepted into your dealership and called me that's all i asked you for two weeks before my wife's birthday i got a phone call it was perillo from gold coast in chicago he said steve harvey he said are you sitting down i said no i'm standing up what's happening he said you're not gonna believe this a guy bought a car a year ago it's been sitting in his garage it has eight miles on it he bought it to me to turn into me and ask him how much would i give him for i said what is it he says the white car you've been looking for i said i'll be up there to get it he said this is unbelievable i said that god i serve he's an unbelievable god i don't listen to what nobody tells me once i write it down i write the vision and make it plain it will come surely it will come at an appointed time it doesn't matter that nobody sees it it doesn't matter that it's visible to other people all you got to do is write it down and believe it god is greatness man all day long what he's done for me he'll do the same thing for you but you got to write the vision go home and read rebecca two and two go home and read bible verse rebecca two and two read what it say if you do that you're changing life appreciate it i was uh 26 years old man i was struggling i didn't have nothing and these people owned the furniture store in cleveland they took me in and gave me my first contract with my little carpet cleaning company when i became a comedian at 27 i didn't have money to travel they gave me a account at their travel agency and man i ran up a bill like eleven thousand dollars just trying to travel and make it them people right there you know man they helped me out you should spend the night in hotel parking lots what was i going to do i didn't know where to stay so i lived in the car i had 35 and i said come on god man i've been trying to make this dream come true you left me out here like this and i was crying so hard that he just said i didn't like hear a voice at nothing but he spoke to me and however he said if you get up i'm gonna take you places you ain't never been now it's fitting to quit so i said skip it i'm gonna quit anyway so i got my car i went to a pay phone and i was gonna call my dad you remember back in the day where you could punch in the code and call your answering machine and get your messages so i called and i punched in the code and he said he said hey steve this is chuck sutton with showtime at the apollo we saw a tape of you you're very funny if you could get here sunday night uh we'd love to put you on television call me back let me know if you could make it so i hung the phone up i'm crushed because my whole dream of being on tv and i couldn't get to new york i got 35 dollars how i'm gonna get to new york i can't make it so i'm standing there at the phone booth and tears just coming down my face i said god so that must be a sign for me to go home because this is it i ain't even got the money to go to the apollo my whole thing i want to be on tv i couldn't even make the dream come true i'm just i'm i'm this is the most messed up moment and so i said man let me call this dude back and see if he said this sunday because maybe he said next sunday and i can hustle up a little bit of money or something i don't know what i'm gonna do but let me just call him back so i call him back see stephen chuck sudden showtime department saw a tape of yours you're very very funny look we have an opening sunday night at showtime department if you can make it we love to put you on tv [Music] i say it's this sunday before i hit the button i heard you have another message now i wasn't there before so i punched my code in i listened to the second message says steve harvey this is tom sober from the comedy care event i had this is a thursday he said i have a gig in jacksonville florida on friday night that pays 150 if you can get there friday night you'll make 150 so i i called him back and i said hey tom did you get a gig away he said no it's still available he said can you get that i said i'm in pensacola florida i'm three and a half hours away so i drive to jacksonville florida and that night i killed i made the 150 club owner said man you funnier than the guy we hired if you stay tomorrow night i'm gonna give you another 150 so now i got 300 now so i get on the phone i call chuck sutton i say hey man is the gig still available at showtime at the apollo he said well we got one opening left i said i'll be there so i call eastern airlines who used to be open back then they had a special for 99 going from jacksonville florida to new york round trip so i parked my car at the airport i got it got on plane flew everything i had was in two bags got to the apollo i said hey man i'm here i got that 11 o'clock in the morning he said you can't stay here because you don't come on to the late show tonight that's my got nowhere to go i said if you just let me stay in this building man i ain't gonna move around nothing i ain't got nowhere to go i'm in harlem i can't go back out here i got these two bags i got victim rode all over me man so he said all right if you go upstairs don't come down so he put me in the dressing room on the sixth floor so that's where all the comedians were so i stayed up there i got hungry around three o'clock and i couldn't take it no more so i went back downstairs dude named alton listen i said hey man he said man i thought i told you don't come down them down steps i say hey man i'm just hungry i said let me go to that kfc i saw in the corner just let me get some chicken i'll come right back he said man if you ain't back in 20 minutes you ain't getting in this building so i went bought me some chicken came back so the comedian started coming in the building they started coming up on the sixth floor so i meet this guy named dl hilton i introduced myself he introduced himself i'm sitting there another guy come in named dwayne johnson then this other dude walked in named jamie foxx and i introduced myself we don't know each other ain't none of us famous it's 1991 man they gave everybody the lineup i was on the last show tonight i don't go on to 11 at night i had this there's four pieces of chicken i'm starving man that chicken didn't wore off i'm nervous man i'm about to throw up d.o hugely went downstairs dale hughes got booed off wayne johnson got booed off jamie foxx went down there and got food they booed jamie then jamie started saying and then they started clapping and jamie had their ass then he went back to them jokes and they got his ass so i'm walking down the steps and i see jamie sitting on the steps i said hey man hang in there he said man ain't never happened to me before man this is crazy this jamie foxx man one of the most talented people in all of comedy and now you don't even know how nervous i am i can't even my breathing is shot because these dudes been booed so i walk out i had wrote this joke uh mike tyson had got in a fight in harlem with his heavyweight name mitch green mike tyson had hit the dude in the eye in the store now he was on the news his eye was swollen so the joke i wrote was they was interviewing mitch green and he was telling everybody what happened but his eye took over the interview and i wrote this joke that his eyes started talking and was just i'll tell you what happened the heavyweight champ's fist is coming towards my face i just say lord lord lord and i wrote this whole joke about this dude's eyeball talking and when the punch came and all this here [Applause] i walked off stage man just started crying i couldn't believe it they paid made 750 for being on tv for one night i'd never made 750 dollars telling jokes in one night and so that was my first television appearance couple weeks later sinbad was the host of the show he got this job at on a different world and so he quit and so mark curry became the host and then mark curry got hanging with mr cooper and he quit and they came to me and said would you come back to new york and host amateur night for us to just try you out ain't no problem so i went to new york i hosted amateur night and i was killing but every time we went to commercial break i was supposed to let the warm-up act take over like reuben does but i knew not to let the warm-up act do that because he would change the attitude of the crowd because the apollo was a wild play so i stayed out there i did the warm-up and the holster and i created a bond with that audience and that's how i got on tv it was my very first tv show i hosted showtime department i ended up being the longest running host in the history of showtime i did that show for eight years nobody ever did it for eight years and that was my turn back moment see in your life everybody has a turn back moment you have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up the thing you have to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up the guarantee is it will never happen that's the guarantee of quitting that it will never happen no way under the sun the only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what because god is always coming he's never too late at your worst smoke look man when they told me i had to be in new york i saw no way i could get that but that god don't he make the phone ring i end up in florida i make three hundred dollars then i go to new york i make seven hundred fifty dollars i almost got a thousand dollars out of nowhere that's that's what happened to me that was my my moment of never giving up that's when i first learned that faith was everything that that you have to remain faithful when i was homeless i had a lot of time to myself actually becoming homeless was exactly what i needed because god needed my undivided attention and he had it for three straight years because i had nothing and i'm just one of them people where sometimes you just got to get my attention you know what i mean so i can't tell you about no education because i ain't got one i ain't got no degree in nothing i've been told my whole life you'll never be nothing simply because of the way you talk you know how many times i've been the way i talk man cause you know what i'm kind of country i don't really i don't really speak that good you know my my english is not eloquent i know that but i ain't never let that stop me when i first got on tv at nbc seven years ago they sent a uh the a linguist to see me i didn't even know what that was i thought this lady was gonna show me how to make spaghetti or something i didn't know i never heard what is a linguist so the woman comes in my office and she says are we ready to begin and i said excuse me ma'am who are you she says i'm your grammar coach i say it for what she said nbc is up to the understanding in order for you to be successful on daytime tv you're going to have to learn how to speak more eloquently i say i ain't going to do all that she said excuse me what did you just say i said i ain't going to do all that that she said say what you just said to me again slowly i said i ain't fiddling do all laid down she said that's exactly why i'm here [Music] because that is improper grammar on every level i say yeah but that's i talk just like this here she said say that again i said i talked just like this here she said slow that down i say i talk just like this him what's the problem she said if you don't learn how to speak more properly you'll never be successful i said who told you that you walked into my office i'm already on tv you know what where you trying to go with this see the reason i'm not gonna let you change my mind is cause i've never known you up until this point not made it to this point without you i don't know how you feel i ain't gonna get the rest of the way without you so i'm just looking at this lady she says listen to me if you don't learn how to speak better you'll be off tv i said okay well let me ask you some i said which one of these sound best to you [Music] i am broke or army is rich i mean you know look man god [Music] gave me a life i never even really dreamed yet he gave me even beyond what i dreamed of i mean you think about it the money they pay me is to wake up i either play music or i tell jokes i either play music or i tell jokes i entertain people for a living they give me money that's a blessing man see see when i wake up i don't have to go to work i get to go to work see that's the difference man some people have to go to work i get to go to work i get to i don't have to you know i mean i was doing this for years for no money but through grace and mercy you know he just kept blessing me and then you know i got other things i want to accomplish you know i'm not through and i've been at this a long time man like i'm i'm thinking about the end you know but all i want to do now is make enough money to change uh kids life you know my foundation is the most important thing i'll do some stuff over here in ghana botswana and joe bird those are three cities i'm targeting for my foundation to come and change you know so that's what it is now that's motivation and then you know i'm a trailblazer man i got to show other people how to do it you know my job now is to show y'all how i did it that's why i talk all the time about motivation i talk more about motivation now than i do comedy because you know your career is what you pay for your calling is what you made so i'm in the calling part of my life now you know i have to like when you ask me a question say i can't just like if i tell you you got to write it down i'm telling you how to make it i'm just you have to do this now you can try to do it if you could try to not do it it's gonna be hard but so i always try to give people little pieces of wisdom because you're young you know everybody in this room you want to be happy and you want to be successful everybody in here wants to be happy and successful if you don't want to be happy success there's something wrong with you most people want to be happy and successful you just need the key the how-to that's my job to show you how to like if i give you one scripture that can change your life and i tell you rebecca two or two and then you don't follow that that's not my fault so now you know that you have to write it down like if you look at my iphone my iphone has my vision board on it i ain't got no picture no dog or my wife on my phone my wife is at my house my wife is she's somewhere she's in rwanda right now because i put stuff that i dream about on my iphone my vision is on so every time my phone rings i look at it i think of my visions and dreams every time i pick up their phone i should pick up that phone to make one of them dreams come true when i open up my laptop the same thing on the laptop so every time i'm texting or email i'm trying to make a dream come true i don't have time for nonsense you know like you know like what they say about me in the blogs i don't it don't matter what they say they don't know me they don't even know me they never met me they say negative stuff about me don't mean nothing look at me what i care what they say god keeps blessing me no matter what you say you got to know who you are and whose you are that's all you need to know i know who i am and i know who i belong to and that god of mine ain't gonna let nothing happen to me that i can't have [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 66min 59sec (4019 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 13 2022