Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you’re gay or not it’s irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
BEAR GRYLLSNobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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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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A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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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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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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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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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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When I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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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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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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