What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
BEAR GRYLLS“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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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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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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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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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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