black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Bear Grylls

You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
BEAR GRYLLS

Emotion Giving Treat
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLS

Children Father Heart
You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Earth Needs
The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
BEAR GRYLLS

Journey Single Steps
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
BEAR GRYLLS

Art Healthy Love Making
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ends Feelings Planet
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
BEAR GRYLLS

Gains Nothing Risk
Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eye High Injured Looks
I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
BEAR GRYLLS

Dog Fun Running
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
BEAR GRYLLS

Differences Give Up Ordinary
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
BEAR GRYLLS

Intuition Night Quiet Voice
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
BEAR GRYLLS

Classic Men Wise
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
BEAR GRYLLS

Little Time Littles Quiet
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eyebrows Hands Prayer
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure People Teamwork
Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
BEAR GRYLLS

Clever Hard Strong Work

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bear Grylls Quotes