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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He’s brilliant. He’s so rude about me in the press, it’s outrageous!
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Brilliant Rays Rude
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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Adventure Kids Want
You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Disaster Expectations Recipes
Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Give Up Heart Survival
You’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.
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Emotion Giving Treat
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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Benchmark Giving Impress Taught Way
As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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Grows Risk Society Terrified
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.
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Earthquakes Looks Survivor
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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Adventure Thinking Travel
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Christian Heart Jesus
I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Name Opportunity Past
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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Adventure Cutting People
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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Believe Care Giving
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Boys Life Modern Young
Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
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Anchors Harbors May
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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Brave Fear One Sure Thing

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Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

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