black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Bear Grylls

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
BEAR GRYLLS

Priority Survival Weather
Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
BEAR GRYLLS

Heart Home Winning
I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
BEAR GRYLLS

Know Looks World
That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
BEAR GRYLLS

Happy Inspire Muscle Question Really Stuff
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
BEAR GRYLLS

Alive Guy Survivor
All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It’s the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
BEAR GRYLLS

Determination Journey Motivational
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!
BEAR GRYLLS

Key Moving Training
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
BEAR GRYLLS

Give Up Heart Survival
When I take kids into the woods, I tell them, “What we’re going to do today is going to be incredibly dangerous.” And you just see 20 smiles go up.
BEAR GRYLLS

Empowering Kids Risk
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
BEAR GRYLLS

Blessing Exciting Seeing
I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.
BEAR GRYLLS

Animal Health Snakes
I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
BEAR GRYLLS

Cards Good Luck Rare Occasion
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
BEAR GRYLLS

Death Determined Life Lines
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
BEAR GRYLLS

Arena Desert Survival
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Mountain Three Tvs
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
BEAR GRYLLS

Bears Names Week
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
BEAR GRYLLS

Challenges Made Want
It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ask Explain Quote Relate Understand
I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!
BEAR GRYLLS

Art Healthy Love Making
I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eight Fire Fun
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Ends Feelings Planet
My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
BEAR GRYLLS

Death Intimate Life Moments
I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
BEAR GRYLLS

Grow Survival
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
BEAR GRYLLS

Earthquakes Looks Survivor
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.
BEAR GRYLLS

Eye Sheep Zebras
Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
BEAR GRYLLS

Adventure Thinking Travel
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
BEAR GRYLLS

Alive Decisions Fate Make

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bear Grylls Quotes