Bear Grylls Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
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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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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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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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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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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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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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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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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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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
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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.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.