Quotes from Steve Harvey

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

Men and women really do want the same things. We just need each other to bring it out. That's really the truth of the matter.

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

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.

We all think that this relationship thing is a game out here. All I'm saying to women is, 'Okay. If it's a game, here are the rules that we play by.'

My calling is to help people, to teach people, to share with people, until I die. I can never stop doing that. I can't, and I don't want to.

Love is never going to go out of style, a man is always going to want to have the love of a woman. She just needs a game plan to work out how to get his love.

If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

I have seen some crazy people do some crazy things on my variety show. I have to stop and ask them a lot of the time, just how they figured out that they could do the things that they do, some of it is just plain freaky.

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

In order to overcome fear, your dream must become bigger than fear.

I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.