I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
BEAR GRYLLSI learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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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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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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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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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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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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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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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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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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