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 GRYLLSSuccess almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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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.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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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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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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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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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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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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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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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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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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