black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.

Bear Grylls

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
BEAR GRYLLS

Risk Survival Waiting
The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
BEAR GRYLLS

Differences Triumph Trying
I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
BEAR GRYLLS

Healthy Home Snakes
To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
BEAR GRYLLS

Couple Running Swimming
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Hurt Pain Running
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
BEAR GRYLLS

Chiefs Policy Safety
It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
BEAR GRYLLS

Comfort Grows Steps
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
BEAR GRYLLS

Speak
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
BEAR GRYLLS

Priority Survival Weather
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
BEAR GRYLLS

Climbing Confidence Self Special
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eyebrows Hands Prayer
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
BEAR GRYLLS

Grow Survival
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
BEAR GRYLLS

Appeals Awareness Come Up
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
BEAR GRYLLS

Key Recovery Research Strong
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Cutting People
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dream Fire Light

You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bear Grylls Quotes