Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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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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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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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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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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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 do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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