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.
BEAR GRYLLSTo me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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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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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.
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I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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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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