If you risk nothing you gain nothing
BEAR GRYLLSI 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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I’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.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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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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When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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