Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
BEAR GRYLLSI’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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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I 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.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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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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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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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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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Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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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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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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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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