Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
BEAR GRYLLSIf you risk nothing you gain nothing
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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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The greatest journeys all start with a single step.
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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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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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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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I’ve eaten sheep’s eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
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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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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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What 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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