As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
BEAR GRYLLSYou only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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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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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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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.
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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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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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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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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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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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It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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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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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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