Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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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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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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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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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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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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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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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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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My Christian faith is my backbone
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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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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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