Steve Harvey Quotes

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Beginning today, I will create a new future by creating a new me. No longer will I dwell in a pit of despair, moaning over squandered time and lost opportunity. I can do nothing about the past. My future is immediate. I will grasp it in both hands and carry it with running feet. When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act! I seize this moment. I choose now.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

If you want to do things, do things.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

The best way to be, is to do.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.

Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.

You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.