Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
BEAR GRYLLSSurvival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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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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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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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.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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 learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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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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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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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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