It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
BEAR GRYLLSSome 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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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.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it’s really going to hold them back if they don’t.
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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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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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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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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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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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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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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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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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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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