Quotes from Steve Harvey

the number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure. Fear

9. If he does not have himself together financially, emotionally, and spiritually, he may be sport fishing; if he is capable of providing and protecting his potential family the way a real man should, then he might be searching for a keeper.

No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter how many different ways they slice it, women like "Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" feel like they just can't compete with The Other Woman—the mother.

a man who loves you will be the man you need him to be if you have requirements—standards you set to make the relationship work the way you want it to.

1. You need to respect me. 2. You must put me and our kids after God and above all others. 3. Be clear to everyone involved in our lives that they will respect your relationship—and me.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies.

Did I Marry a Man or a Boy?" should have stopped her husband at the bedroom door and told him something like, "Look, I know you love your mother and you'd do anything for her, but it's not acceptable to me for you to leave me and these babies here in this house alone to bake cookies. If you choose to go over there, then you need to stay over there for the night.

she's making him aware of the standards he needs to live up to in order to stay in their relationship. Once it's said, the ball is in his court.

you can control how you feel and what you expect of your man.

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.

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.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

If a man loves you . . . he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancée, his wife, his baby's mama, something.

a real man is happy and eager to live by your rules, as long as he knows what the rules are and he's sure that abiding by those rules will help keep the woman he loves happy

Boys Shack, MEN build homes

It's a woman's right to know a man's intentions upfront. Because, once you get emotionally attached to a man and you sleep with him, it's too late.

I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

The Lord saved my soul.

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