Steve Harvey Quotes

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.

The road to our dreams has many detours.

The road to success is always under construction... there are lots of pot holes but no traffic jams.

You don't just become a success overnight.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Success is 99 percent failure.

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Setbacks motivate me.

I've learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.