Harvey Quotes

• Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

  Mary Chase

  Mother, Smart, Years

  "Fictional character: Elwood P. Dowd". "Harvey", www.imdb.com. December 20, 1950.

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• Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The road to success is always under construction.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Inspiring, Success

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• God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  Interview with Dave Davis, www.chud.com. December 30, 2004.

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  The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

  James Stewart

  Smart, Years, May

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• A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

  Steve Harvey

  Growing Up, Father, Taught

  "Steve at Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 19, 2012.

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• I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey Says Hip-hop Must Stop Disrespecting Women". www.mtv.com. September 06, 2012.

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• I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

  Steve Harvey

  Doctors, Common Sense, Amount

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey's Dating Advice". www.oprah.com. March 02, 2009.

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• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

  Paul Harvey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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• Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

  Steve Harvey

  Comedian, Crowds, Drag

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• The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

  Steve Harvey

  Bars, Problem, Settings

  "Comedian Steve Harvey: Women's standards too low". www.cnn.com. March 23, 2009.

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  If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

  Steve Harvey

  Patience, Worry, Praying

  FaceBook post by Steve Harvey from Jun 24, 2014

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• You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never say "nagging". I think that "nagging" is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A guy that's really serious about you, he's gotta be talking to you, he's gotta want to have one-on-one, in-your-face interaction. That's how we are.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey: Don't Be Stupid About Men" by Sharyn Alfonsi and Ursula Fahy, abcnews.go.com. April 7, 2009.

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• I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Steve Harvey: The 'Think Like a Man' Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can women know exactly how men think? And there are so many guys out there with relationship books who are just not telling the truth. They have shaded parts.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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