Bear Grylls Quotes:- Bear Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter, and businessman. He first drew attention after embarking on a number of adventures and then became widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011).
He is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and the US, such as Running Wild with Bear Grylls and The Island with Bear Grylls. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed as The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at age 35, a post he has held for a second term since 2015.
Inspirational Bear Grylls Quotes and Sayings
“Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.”
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“The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.”
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“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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“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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“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.”
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“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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“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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“Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.”
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“I have held healthy respect 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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“The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.”
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“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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“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.”
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“The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.”
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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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“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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“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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“All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.”
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“The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.”
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“Faith is personal if it’s to be real.”
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“I love home cooking, and I’m not a great one for fast food.”
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“To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.”
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“But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.”
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“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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“I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk – not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.”
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“I don’t thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck of our houseboat reading a book.”
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“I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.”
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“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.”
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“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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“You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.”
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“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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“And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.”
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“You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learned 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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“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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“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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“Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.”
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“I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!”
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“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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“Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.”
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“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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“Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.”
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“Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.”
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“I don’t like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sorts of good luck cards for rare occasions!”
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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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“Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding a home.”
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“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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“You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.”
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“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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“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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“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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“Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.”
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“It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.”
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“Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.”
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