Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
BEAR GRYLLSI try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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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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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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I 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.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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What 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?
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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