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.
BEAR GRYLLSI’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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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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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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.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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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