Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
BEAR GRYLLSI was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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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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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me…
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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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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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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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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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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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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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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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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