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 GRYLLSI miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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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.
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There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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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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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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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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It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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