There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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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The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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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 love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
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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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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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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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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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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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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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