My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
BEAR GRYLLSMy faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
BEAR GRYLLSWhat Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
BEAR GRYLLSYou can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
BEAR GRYLLSOne killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
BEAR GRYLLSOur achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
BEAR GRYLLSWhat I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
BEAR GRYLLSOne thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
BEAR GRYLLSI never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
BEAR GRYLLSIt can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
BEAR GRYLLSBeing brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
BEAR GRYLLSThat feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
BEAR GRYLLSI think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
BEAR GRYLLSWhy is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
BEAR GRYLLSThe rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
BEAR GRYLLSAlpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
BEAR GRYLLSWell, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLS