Without risk, there can be no growth.
BEAR GRYLLS
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A man’s pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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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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I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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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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I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, “I watch your show, I’m not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it’s about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times.”
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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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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.
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Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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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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“But, we’re also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk.” That’s what it’s about, you don’t empower kids if you don’t expose them to risk.
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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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