I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
BEAR GRYLLSMy 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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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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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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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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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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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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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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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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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