Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
BEAR GRYLLSSuccess almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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That 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.
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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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You 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.
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