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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

Bear Grylls

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
BEAR GRYLLS

Bears Names Week
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Know Looks World
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Down People Sitting Sweat
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ambition Heart Pride
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
BEAR GRYLLS

Classic Men Wise
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Luck Matter Trying
I’m probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you’ve ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
BEAR GRYLLS

Chiefs Policy Safety
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Flames Giving Ice
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
BEAR GRYLLS

Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLS

Baptist Growing Robins Up
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Risk Survival Waiting
When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
BEAR GRYLLS

Digging Magic Men
How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
BEAR GRYLLS

Speak
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
BEAR GRYLLS

Little Time Littles Quiet
Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Best Boldly Life Live
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
BEAR GRYLLS

Enough Nobody Straight Stupid

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.

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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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