The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
BEAR GRYLLSI hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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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 have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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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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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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To 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.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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