I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
BEAR GRYLLSIs your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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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 grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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