As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
BEAR GRYLLSDreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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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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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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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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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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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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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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My Christian faith is my backbone
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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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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There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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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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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Why 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.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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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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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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