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.
BEAR GRYLLSLook, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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My Christian faith is my backbone
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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 always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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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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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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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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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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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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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