The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
BEAR GRYLLSAs a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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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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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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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 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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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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