Top 100 Bear Grylls Quotes
#2. 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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#3. I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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#4. Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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#5. Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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#6. The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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#7. Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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#8. Empty vessels make the most noise. It is true. The best adventurers and climbers, and the most successful people I know in life, are all great listeners, and they don't talk too much.
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#9. 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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#10. It was like climbing a mountain of waist-deep molasses while giving someone a fireman's carry, who, for good measure, was also trying to force a pair of frozen socks into your mouth. Nice.
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#11. 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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#12. I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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#13. As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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#14. I was in and out of the hospital almost daily from then on.
They X-rayed, poked, and prodded me, and then they did it again for good measure.
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#15. You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
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#16. I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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#17. 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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#19. As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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#20. Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.
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#21. I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
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#22. 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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#23. Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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#24. When 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.
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#25. Eating any of these things, goat testicles or what have you, isn't going to be nice, but you get into that zone, you become focussed and you do what you need to do. It's all about one thing: coming home in one piece.
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#26. I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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#27. All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
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#28. Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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#29. 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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#30. 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.
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#31. But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.
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#32. 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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#33. All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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#34. Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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#35. 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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#36. I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so ... anoraky.
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#37. In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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#40. I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
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#41. When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.
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#42. I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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#43. But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.
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#44. Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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#45. There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
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#46. I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
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#47. There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
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#48. I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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#49. I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#53. If you want it bad enough, you'll pass.
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#54. Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
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#55. But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat.
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#56. 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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#57. The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'
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#58. I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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#59. You climb only because the mountain allows it. If it says wait, then you must wait, and when it allows you to go, then you must struggle and strain in the thin air with all your might. Listening to the mountain and having patience on it are the keys to survival.
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#60. 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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#62. Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life - blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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#63. It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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#64. So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.
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#65. 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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#66. When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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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#69. I love the quote she once gave me: "When supply seems to have dried up, look around you quickly for something to give away." It is a law of the universe: to get good things you must first give away good things. (And of course this applies to love and friendship, as well.)
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#70. 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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#71. Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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#72. The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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#73. A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
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#76. Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.
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#80. Meals were often eaten standing up, and I wasn't quite sure why they had bothered to issue us with beds, we got to see them so little.
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#81. What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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#82. The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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#83. 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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#84. Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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#85. Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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#86. To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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#87. Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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#88. 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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#89. I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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#90. 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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#91. The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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#92. The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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#93. My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.
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#94. Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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#95. 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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#96. I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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#97. Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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#98. Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.
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#99. Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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#100. I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
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