Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 02.14.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was thinking about something earlier. Today, I've tried to
think about would have been the most valuable things in
my life? And if you think about it, man, I
was watching something online and it was talking about a

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man what he was willing to sacrifice greatly for and
what it came down to. The guy posed the questions,
what are you willing to die for? Or who would
you die for? And that's a striking question. And if

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you ask yourself that question and you can't think of
anybody or nothing you would die for, I want to
suggest something to you. You have to start reaching for
something of value. Sooner or later, you've got to start
attaching yourself to something and that's greater than you, because

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it can't just be about you. That's not the word,
that's not the way the world is set up in
designed We are a collection of relationships. We are all
woven together in some shape, form or fashion to the
people that we know, and once you know them, somebody
in that connection has to be of value. I thought

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this question out. I would die for all of my children.
I would die for my wife. I would have died
for my parents. I would die for my two sisters,
my brother. I would and the reason I would is
because of the level of significance they've had in my
life and the fact that I couldn't live when I

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would live with myself knowing that I allowed it to
be them instead of me. I just ain't cut from
that cloth. Now hear a lot of men online talking
about I ain't dying for nobody. When you, my friend, you,
my brother, have not found the secret to this thing,
because life becomes worth living when you find yourself in

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love with someone more than you love yourself. When you
get to that right there, you'll understand what it's all about.
When you first lay your eyes on your child, that
child becomes quite significant to you. I don't care when
you have this child, how late in life, how early
in life. Once you look at them, they become really

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significant for you, and you change. My children changed me.
I realized all of a sudden, I not only had
something to live for, I now had something I would
die for. And that's what it comes down to, fellas.

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I mean, it applies to women too, but I'm kind
of really talking to men because I think what happened
man with this generation that we have is not enough.
Older men are sharing the concepts and principles of life
anymore with these young cats, and they got them going
around freely exchanging information with one another that ain't really
good information, Like we stop telling each other that you

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are really really made in this world to provide and
to be a provider for something. We have been taught
that women are the prize. And I was watching this
guy online talking about a woman ain't the prize? Well,
if you get the right one, it is, now you
can get the wrong one. The wrong one ain't. The
wrong one is not a prize. The right one is.

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But say, fellas, you ain't no prize either until you
lift up, live up to your calling. Women have a
skill set that we've not been blessed with. They the
only one that can make another life. You can get
with another a woman and she can make another you.
You can't do that a woman. Some women's obligation is

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to reproduce all women, but some every woman isn't born
into this world to have children. Understand that. But there
are women who want children from the time they're little girls.
Well that's that's their mission in life. But fellas, you
gotta want root. You gotta understand what is yours too, though,
because if you ain't, if you ain't here to take

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care of nobody, what Because you can't make a life,
so you should at least be able to sponsor one.
I mean, I'm just talking real to you now. That
is value and honor in taking care of a family.
That is real honor. I'm able to stick my chest

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out knowing one thing I did exceptionally well. I've been
a great provider exceptionally well. And it's not the amount
of money. I'm talking to all men who go out
there and turn them corners every day, start that carp
and drive the work and come home with that check
and laying on the table and share it with a
woman and saying, hey, now make this work. I'm talking

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to you. You ain't got to be rich to be
a provider. All you got to do is show up
and provide. But that's honor in that. Man. Men feel
me and men take a certain pride in that. And
we got to keep doing that. Fellas. It's okay to
love your wife, it's okay to love your children. It's

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okay to want to have a family. It's okay to
defend them with your honor, with your life. That's been
one of my great joys. Man. I ain't got a
lot of stuff right, but I got that right. He
say what you want to say. But I look out
for mine, and I take care of mine, and I
appreciate all the men out there that's doing the same thing,

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looking out for yours and taking care of your. Hats
off to your brothers. You got to love somebody more
than you love yourself. You do that, you'll find the
secret my clothes and lawns. Talk to y'all, y'all. He
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