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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.

Bear Grylls

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
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Alive Guy Survivor
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Expecting Happen Stuff Unpredictable
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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Age Special Wanted Young
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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Games Little People
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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Bears Names Week
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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Dream Fighting Thinking
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Give Up Heart Survival
There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Climbing Heart Running
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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Attitude Job Running
Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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Decision Fearless Kids
Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Changing Life Use Way Your
Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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Key Recovery Research Strong
My Christian faith is my backbone
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Backbone Christian Faith
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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Adventure Earth Needs
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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Eight Fire Fun
Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Absence Brave Way

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