I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
BEAR GRYLLSI’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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People 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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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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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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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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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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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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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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