One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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?
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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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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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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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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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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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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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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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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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