Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
BEAR GRYLLSAs a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
More Bear Grylls Quotes
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I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn’t really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn’t a TV person.
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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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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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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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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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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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I train five days a week hard – but it is short and sharp – 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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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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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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I’ve fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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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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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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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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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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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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