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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.

Bear Grylls

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Face Rock Tea
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Gains Nothing Risk
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Ego Enough Strong
The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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Differences Triumph Trying
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Army Soldier Years
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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Gay Progressive Should
My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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Adventure People Teamwork
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Priority Survival Weather
Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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Hurt Pain Running
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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Ambition Heart Pride
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Luck Moments Plans
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Alive Guy Survivor
The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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Hell Lessons Life Rewards
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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Dream Fighting Thinking
Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
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Detail Jesus Jobs Mind

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.

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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.

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