Sometimes an ember is all we need.
BEAR GRYLLSI always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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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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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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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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I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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