Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
BEAR GRYLLSYou can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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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.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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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?
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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.
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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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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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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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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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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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