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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

Bear Grylls

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  The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.

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  My 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.

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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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  You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

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  I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

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  What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

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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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  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’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define ourselves.

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  Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

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  Some 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.

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  Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

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  A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

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  The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

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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 was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

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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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  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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  Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.

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  What I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?

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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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  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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  I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

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  It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

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  My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

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  It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.

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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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