I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
BEAR GRYLLSLife’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.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It’s the law of the universe.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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People ask me, “How do I succeed?” Whatever it is they do, I say, “Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you’ll be getting there.” Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
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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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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.
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