Bear Grylls Quotes

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Experts should be on tap, not on top. Listen to the advice, then trust your gut.

The goal is not to be fearless.
It's to be ready for when we feel scared.
*To be trained in dealing with fear.*

Traditional survival was portrayed a little boring when I was young.
When we made Man vs Wild, the goal wasn’t to show how tough one person could be.
It was to show what all of us are capable of when things get hard.
Fear. Fatigue. Failure.
And then learning, adapting, pushing on.
If the show made survival exciting, it’s because survival is about hope.
It’s about ordinary people discovering strength they didn’t know they had.
That lesson belongs to everyone.

Every time you surprise yourself, you inspire yourself. That's the real reward of pushing beyond what you thought was possible.

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…

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

When you run from fear, it gets worse.
People think they're avoiding it by never facing it.
"I'm scared of public speaking, I'll never do it."
"I'm nervous about hospitals or treatments."
But the fear just gets bigger when you run.

Calm under pressure isn't a personality trait. It is a discipline we build.

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

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

Tents don't repair themselves. Neither do relationships. Fix the small rips before the next storm hits.

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.

Fear shrinks when you face it.
Fear grows when you run.
The only way out is through.
NGU!

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.