The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
BEAR GRYLLSScouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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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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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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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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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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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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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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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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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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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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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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