Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
BEAR GRYLLSI always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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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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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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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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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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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.
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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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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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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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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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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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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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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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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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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.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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