Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
BEAR GRYLLSAlpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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The hardest thing about my job isn’t the snake bites or the crocodiles, it’s being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
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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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A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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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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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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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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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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