Bear Grylls Quotes

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

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

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

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

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

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.

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

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no feeling like coming home after danger.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

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.

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.

Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

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.

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.

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

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.

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