# Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 8.28.26

An episode of [Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1405629617), 28 Aug 2026, 6:59.

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## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Last break of the day. We've had a great morning today. Yes,
[0:05] Speaker 1: we had fun today. Steve, it's time for you now
[0:08] Speaker 1: to take us home with your closing remarks. What you
[0:10] Speaker 1: got for us today, Steve? Once again, it's about sharing
[0:14] Speaker 1: the things that I've learned along the way. And one
[0:17] Speaker 1: of the things I think is very important that we
[0:19] Speaker 1: should talk about, we should talk about blame and excuses.
[0:26] Speaker 1: Blame and excuses. I'm telling you, man, they serve no purpose. Excuses,
[0:34] Speaker 1: first of all, are only good for the person that's
[0:37] Speaker 1: providing them. It does nothing for the person who receives it.
[0:41] Speaker 1: Have you ever had somebody tell you a reason why
[0:44] Speaker 1: they didn't do something and you were counting on them
[0:47] Speaker 1: to get it done? And they gave you an excuse
[0:49] Speaker 1: as to why. OK, here's somebody supposed to pick you
[0:52] Speaker 1: up in the carpool for work. Now, you done gave
[0:55] Speaker 1: your car to your spouse so they could go do
[0:57] Speaker 1: what they want to do. Now, you sitting there waiting
[0:59] Speaker 1: on the carpool to come pick you up. They don't
[1:01] Speaker 1: pick you up. Now, they late. Man, I had a
[1:05] Speaker 1: hard time getting up this morning, man. I'm glad. But
[1:08] Speaker 1: I'm here, though. Whoa, man. That's an excuse. What do
[1:12] Speaker 1: you mean you late? You had a hard time getting up.
[1:14] Speaker 1: I'm sitting up here waiting on you to pick me up,
[1:16] Speaker 1: and you come 45 minutes late. Now, I'm late for work.
[1:21] Speaker 1: See that excuse? That does okay for me. I was
[1:24] Speaker 1: sick this morning. I didn't feel up to it. That
[1:27] Speaker 1: excuse works wonderful for you. But the person receiving the
[1:31] Speaker 1: excuse gets nothing. You've got to remove excuses from your
[1:37] Speaker 1: vocabulary and your walk in life. See, I don't really
[1:42] Speaker 1: accept excuses from anybody in my camp. If you're an employee,
[1:48] Speaker 1: you work for me. I don't do excuses because I
[1:51] Speaker 1: don't give none. Today, for example, I'm not feeling real well.
[1:58] Speaker 1: You know, my sinus system kicked in. I had a
[2:01] Speaker 1: troublesome night last night. I'm not feeling well. But guess what?
[2:05] Speaker 1: I came to work on the radio today and I'll
[2:07] Speaker 1: do these two shows I got to do today because
[2:11] Speaker 1: I don't care about my excuses. People who are looking
[2:15] Speaker 1: for me to wake them up in the morning, give
[2:17] Speaker 1: them a laugh or give them a thought starter. They
[2:19] Speaker 1: not looking for my excuses. They just looking for the results.
[2:22] Speaker 1: The excuses don't do me no good. Now there's some
[2:24] Speaker 1: days all of us are not up to par. We're
[2:28] Speaker 1: not 100%, but I'm not, I don't care about the excuses.
[2:32] Speaker 1: I don't accept excuses because I don't give excuses. The
[2:36] Speaker 1: other thing I removed from my life is blame. And
[2:40] Speaker 1: once you blame another person, man, This is what happened
[2:46] Speaker 1: with blame. Blame and excuses. Listen to me. Finger pointing
[2:52] Speaker 1: does nothing. Because you've heard the old saying, every time
[2:56] Speaker 1: you point your finger at a person, you notice there's
[2:58] Speaker 1: three of them pointing back at you. Once you are
[3:01] Speaker 1: in the blame business and the excuse business, you forfeit
[3:06] Speaker 1: your chance for growth. I'll give you an example. If
[3:11] Speaker 1: you're always talking about it's somebody else's fault, And you
[3:15] Speaker 1: always have an excuse why something didn't get done or accomplished.
[3:19] Speaker 1: Guess what? Now you can't grow. You can't grow. You
[3:25] Speaker 1: can't fix it. Because the reason why it didn't happen
[3:29] Speaker 1: or the reason why you didn't accomplish it is because
[3:32] Speaker 1: you blame someone else and you have an excuse. Once
[3:36] Speaker 1: you start accepting blame and excuses, you forfeit your chance
[3:40] Speaker 1: for growth. You kill any chance for change. Sometimes all
[3:47] Speaker 1: you have to do as a person is search within
[3:49] Speaker 1: yourself and find out what it is about you that
[3:52] Speaker 1: you could change that could start producing a better result.
[3:56] Speaker 1: But if you always blaming somebody else and providing and
[3:59] Speaker 1: accepting excuses from yourself and other people, guess what you've done?
[4:03] Speaker 1: You've killed your chance for change. Sometimes you could be
[4:07] Speaker 1: doing a whole lot better in life if you would
[4:10] Speaker 1: just change. If you would search yourself and change something
[4:14] Speaker 1: about you, you would be doing so much better. If
[4:18] Speaker 1: you just search yourself, stop allowing excuses to be a
[4:22] Speaker 1: part of your makeup and stop allowing blame to be
[4:25] Speaker 1: a part of it. And you would discover a lot
[4:27] Speaker 1: of this is just you. It could be you. Another
[4:31] Speaker 1: thing that blame and excuse it does, it allows you
[4:34] Speaker 1: to fail favorably. You know, man, you can just get
[4:38] Speaker 1: all right with failing. You can fail favorably because it
[4:42] Speaker 1: ain't my fault. And I didn't do it because it
[4:46] Speaker 1: was cold outside. So, ta-da, you allow yourself to fail favorably.
[4:52] Speaker 1: That's an ugly spot to be in. But blaming excuses
[4:56] Speaker 1: allows you to fail favorably. Like it's okay to fail
[5:01] Speaker 1: because it ain't my fault. Because I have an excuse
[5:04] Speaker 1: and it's they fault. Blaming excuses, man, is a very,
[5:08] Speaker 1: very dangerous thing out there. Also, blaming excuses promotes a
[5:13] Speaker 1: climate of failure. It just permeates man throughout your life.
[5:18] Speaker 1: And next thing you know, you ain't accomplishing nothing. Because
[5:22] Speaker 1: if blaming blame and excuses are part of your makeup,
[5:25] Speaker 1: you now have promoted a climate for failure. It's OK.
[5:29] Speaker 1: It's OK, because I have a reason why. Why you
[5:33] Speaker 1: didn't finish school? Because it was too cold to go.
[5:37] Speaker 1: Why you didn't finish school? Because that test was too hard.
[5:40] Speaker 1: I didn't study them two pages. I thought they said
[5:42] Speaker 1: the first chapter. She questions us on the first three chapters.
[5:46] Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. That's the only reason I fail.
[5:50] Speaker 1: And you get all right with it. When you're no
[5:54] Speaker 1: longer the reason why something happens, you no longer have
[5:59] Speaker 1: control over what happens. Let me say that to you
[6:03] Speaker 1: one more time. When you're no longer the reason why
[6:07] Speaker 1: something happens, you ain't got to take responsibility. You're not
[6:16] Speaker 1: the reason. Stop allowing blame and excuses to enter into
[6:21] Speaker 1: your makeup. They serve nobody any good, especially you. Those
[6:29] Speaker 1: are my closing remarks. All right now. Have yourself a
[6:35] Speaker 1: good weekend. You better. You better. For all Steve Harvey contests,
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[6:57] Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show.

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