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.
BEAR GRYLLSNothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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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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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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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Don’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
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When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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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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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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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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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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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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I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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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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