All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
BEAR GRYLLSMy faith is an important part of my life and over the years I’ve learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn’t need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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 christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
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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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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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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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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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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 rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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