Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
BEAR GRYLLSI think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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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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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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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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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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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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People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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