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Bear Grylls Quotes
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Bear Grylls
British
Explorer
Born:
Jun 7
,
1974
Been
Good
Life
Me
Survival
You
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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.
Bear Grylls
Never Give Up
Survival
Heart
Words
Three
Give
Never
Up
Trying
Just
Really
Keep
Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
Bear Grylls
Fear
Way
Finding
Having
Absence
Through
Brave
Being
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Bear Grylls
Needs
Man
Guidance
Pride
Others
He
Support
Learn
His
Turn
Downfall
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.
Bear Grylls
Fate
Whatever
Our
Alive
Ourselves
Must
Stay
Determined
Through
Push
Takes
Make
How
How Far
Survive
Endure
Decisions
To Survive
Far
Prepared
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.
Bear Grylls
Good
Heart
People
Pride
Big
Judgment
Accidents
Ambition
Mountains
Cloud
Good Judgment
About
Instinct
Climbing
Happen
Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
You
Sometimes
Matter
Try
Luck
Bit
Look
How
Hard
Need
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
Bear Grylls
Hood
John
Robin
Robin Hood
Always
Up
Wanted
Baptist
Growing
Growing Up
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.
Bear Grylls
Life
You
Fight
Matter
Think
Telling
Dream
Something
More
Onto
Always
Lots
Just
Hold
Sensible
Your
Full
Your Dream
Need
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Bear Grylls
You
Survival
Protection
Weather
First
Extreme
Priority
Getting
Fast
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.
Bear Grylls
God
Faith
Natural
Free
Wild
Kid
Religious
Pretty
Had
Knew
Felt
Always
Existed
Very
Where
Really
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
Bear Grylls
You
Change
Survival
Rules
Arena
Never
Whether
Desert
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Bear Grylls
Faith
Home
Religion
Joy
Christianity
Finding
About
Forgiven
Being
Held
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls
Life
Death
Willing
Determined
Between
Line
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls
Faith
Be Real
Real
Personal
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
Bear Grylls
Life
Myself
Me
My Life
Gave
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Some
Self-Confidence
Forces
Climbing
Cemented
Then
Special
Special Forces
Belief
Everest
Things
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.
Bear Grylls
Swimming
Would
Running
Above
Hill
Couple
Limited
Ready
Climb
Underwater
Lot
Get
Did
Gets
Going
Oxygen
Then
Body
Your
Your Body
Swim
Everest
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.
Bear Grylls
Me
You
Awareness
Wild
Resourceful
Unpredictability
Develop
Come
React
Up
Plan
Act
Appeal
Fast
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
Bear Grylls
Faith
You
Heart
Radical
Christian
Wildest
Guy
Come
Most
Across
Ever
Christian Faith
Jesus
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.
Bear Grylls
Courage
Women
Rubble
Earthquakes
Some
Days
Look
Greatest
Been
End
Surviving
Survivors
After
Many
Shown
Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
Bear Grylls
Stupid
Enough
Else
Nobody
Nobody Else
Get
Themselves
You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.
Bear Grylls
You
See
Bear
Often
Suit
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.
Bear Grylls
Me
You
Treat
Fear
Edge
Give
Give Me
Emotion
Feel
Sharpens
Learnt
Human
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
Bear Grylls
Society
High
Folk
Determined
Come
Line
Grand
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.
Bear Grylls
Lion
You
Eyes
Sheep
Ounce
Eaten
Give
Hot
Calories
Still
Which
Meat
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.
Bear Grylls
You
Try
Too Much
Slow
Healthy
Nothing
Down
Dairy
Too
Eat
Clean
Lean
Because
Surprising
Diet
Much
Avoid
Meat
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls
Age
Young
TV
Through
Never
Forces
Doing
Been
Very
Trained
Did
Just
Young Age
Wanted
Special
Special Forces
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