The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
BEAR GRYLLSWhat 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?
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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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.
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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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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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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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Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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