Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
BEAR GRYLLSWhy is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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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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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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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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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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My Christian faith is my backbone
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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My best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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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’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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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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