Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
BEAR GRYLLSBeing brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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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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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Well, 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.
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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.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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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.
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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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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.
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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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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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My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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