I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
BEAR GRYLLSTo me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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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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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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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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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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