Bear Grylls famous quotes

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
-- Bear Grylls

#Survival #Desert #Arena

Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.
-- Bear Grylls

#Gay #Boys #Thinking

If you risk nothing you gain nothing
-- Bear Grylls

#Risk #Gains

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Nice #Home #Needs

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
-- Bear Grylls

#Wise #Men #Classic

You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.
-- Bear Grylls

#Adventure #Needs #Earth

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Kids #Decision #Fearless

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Fun #Fire #Eight

I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
-- Bear Grylls

#Running #Dog #Home

Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"
-- Bear Grylls

#Squirrels #Rocks #Tv Shows

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
-- Bear Grylls

#Blessing #Exciting #Generous

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.
-- Bear Grylls

#Survival #Grew Up #Grew

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Fall #Numbers #Decent

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Mountain #Three #World

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
-- Bear Grylls

#Luck #Moments #Plans

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
-- Bear Grylls

#Looks #World

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
-- Bear Grylls

#Life And Death #Moments #Intimate

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
-- Bear Grylls

#Safety #Chiefs #Policy

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
-- Bear Grylls

#Ridiculous #Injury

Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
-- Bear Grylls

#Gay #Progressive #Should

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
-- Bear Grylls

#Boys #Modern Life #Young

I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
-- Bear Grylls

#Running #Jobs #Attitude

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
-- Bear Grylls

#Rocks #Tea #Faces

My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
-- Bear Grylls

#Nice #Fire #Snakes

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
-- Bear Grylls

#Lines #Determined #Life Or Death

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
-- Bear Grylls

#People #Bravery #Gone

Without risk, there can be no growth.
-- Bear Grylls

#Risk #Growth

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Courage #Dark #Journey

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Adventure #Cutting #People

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…
-- Bear Grylls

#Giving Up #Differences #Ordinary

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.
-- Bear Grylls

#Grows

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
-- Bear Grylls

#Anchors #May #Harbors

When 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. "But, we're also going to learn to look after each other, who to work together and who to understand and manage that risk." That's what it's about, you don't empower kids if you don't expose them to risk.
-- Bear Grylls

#Kids #Empowering #Risk

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
-- Bear Grylls

#Running #Heart #Climbing

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
-- Bear Grylls

#Night #Voice #Intuition

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Pride #Mirrors #Once Upon A Time

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Giving #Way #Taught

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

#Games #People #Littles

The 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 Grylls

#Lessons #Rewards #Hell

Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
-- Bear Grylls

#Men #People #Risk

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 #Decision #Alive

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
-- Bear Grylls

#Running #Air #Special

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Teamwork #Adventure #People

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
-- Bear Grylls

#Brave #Way #Absence

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Giving Up #Want #Way

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
-- Bear Grylls

#Doe #Stuff #Expecting

The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
-- Bear Grylls

#Scratches #Needs #Truth Is

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

#Giving #Emotion #Treats

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
-- Bear Grylls

#Stay Strong #Fearless #Emotion

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
-- Bear Grylls

#Giving Up #Heart #Survival

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
-- Bear Grylls

#Pride #Men #Support

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
-- Bear Grylls

#Home #Feelings #Coming Home

And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.
-- Bear Grylls

#Heart #Law #Giving

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Men #Magic #Digging

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Prayer #Hands #Eyebrows

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Home #Survival #Energy

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

#Running #Couple #Swimming

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.
-- Bear Grylls

#Determination #Journey #Trying

Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
-- Bear Grylls

#Weather #Priorities #Survival

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Dream #Men #Fire

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
-- Bear Grylls

#Luck #Trying #Needs

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.
-- Bear Grylls

#Home #Snakes #Healthy

Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
-- Bear Grylls

#Strong #Ego #Enough

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,
-- Bear Grylls

#Believe #Giving #Care

Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
-- Bear Grylls

#Achievement #Belief

Sometimes an ember is all we need.
-- Bear Grylls

#Needs #Sometimes #Embers

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

#Dream #Fighting #Thinking

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
-- Bear Grylls

#Chance #One Chance

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

#Self Confidence #Climbing #Special

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Jobs #Procrastination #Done

I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
-- Bear Grylls

#Adventure #Kids #Want

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Waiting #Risk #Survival

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
-- Bear Grylls

#Christian #Jesus #Heart

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.
-- Bear Grylls

#Dad #Thinking #Climbing

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.
-- Bear Grylls

#Religious #Jobs #Children

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

#Healthy #Trying #Meat

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
-- Bear Grylls

#Growing Up #Robins #Baptists

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
-- Bear Grylls

#Self #Lines #Determined

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
-- Bear Grylls

#Good Luck #Cards #Expeditions

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
-- Bear Grylls

#Home #Cooking #Fast Food

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
-- Bear Grylls

#Art #Healthy #Love Making

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
-- Bear Grylls

#Rude #Rays #Brilliant

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.
-- Bear Grylls

#Guy #Survivor #Alive

I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
-- Bear Grylls

#Running #Dog #Fun

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

#Heart #Ambition #Pride