Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
BEAR GRYLLSAs a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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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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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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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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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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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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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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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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 think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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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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The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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