Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
BEAR GRYLLSI love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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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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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn’t going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It’s all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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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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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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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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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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