Faith is personal if it’s to be real.
BEAR GRYLLSFaith is personal if it’s to be real.
BEAR GRYLLSNothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
BEAR GRYLLSYou’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
BEAR GRYLLSWhen I’m filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you’ve got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I’m not like that when I’m back home.
BEAR GRYLLSWhen 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 GRYLLSSometimes 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.
BEAR GRYLLSI always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
BEAR GRYLLSA friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
BEAR GRYLLSOur dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
BEAR GRYLLSYou can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
BEAR GRYLLSDon’t be scared to dream big, and don’t be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It’s the tenacious not the talented that win.
BEAR GRYLLSThe lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
BEAR GRYLLSYou 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.
BEAR GRYLLSI love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.
BEAR GRYLLSLife is an adventure that is best lived boldly
BEAR GRYLLSI 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