Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
BEAR GRYLLSPeople ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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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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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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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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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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