I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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’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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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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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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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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 had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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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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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.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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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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