110+ Bear Grylls Quotes On Survival, Daring And Adventurous

Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is best known for his television series Man vs. Wild, in which he is shown performing various survival skills in extreme environments around the world. He is also known for his work on the television series Born Survivor, Escape from Hell, and The Island with Bear Grylls. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bear Grylls on life, survival, daring.

Top 10 Bear Grylls Quotes

1. 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.
2. The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
3. 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.
4. Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
5. Sometimes an ember is all we need.
6. 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.
7. Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
8. There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
9. 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.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• There is no feeling like coming home after danger.
• Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
• Without risk, there can be no growth.
• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.
• And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.
• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
• I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

Bear Grylls Quotes About Life

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

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

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you. — Bear Grylls

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

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities — Bear Grylls

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

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

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. — Bear Grylls

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

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

Bear Grylls Quotes About Survival

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

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. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bear Grylls Quotes About Adventurous

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. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly — Bear Grylls

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. — Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls Quotes About Hard

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

I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest. — Bear Grylls

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. — Bear Grylls

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit. — Bear Grylls

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

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. — Bear Grylls

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

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling. — Bear Grylls

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

Bear Grylls Quotes About Faith

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

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

My Christian faith is my backbone — Bear Grylls

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life. — Bear Grylls

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

Faith is personal if it's to be real. — Bear Grylls

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

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

Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life. — Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls Quotes About Fast

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

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast! — Bear Grylls

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality. — Bear Grylls

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

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

Bear Grylls Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger. — Bear Grylls

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. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win. — Bear Grylls

One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines. — Bear Grylls

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. — Bear Grylls

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality. — Bear Grylls

I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K. — Bear Grylls

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

One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave. — Bear Grylls

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire. — Bear Grylls

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

If you risk nothing you gain nothing — Bear Grylls

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

The greatest journeys all start with a single step. — Bear Grylls

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. — Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber. — Bear Grylls

You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

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. — Bear Grylls

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

Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye. — Bear Grylls

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line. — Bear Grylls

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

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

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful. — Bear Grylls

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

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

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage. — Bear Grylls

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

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

It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW. — Bear Grylls

Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong. It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs. — Bear Grylls

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

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

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Bear Grylls

1. Bear Grylls teaches us to be resilient and to never give up, no matter how difficult the situation. He also encourages us to take calculated risks and to be prepared for any eventuality.
2. He also emphasizes the importance of being resourceful and to use what you have to your advantage.
3. Finally, he encourages us to have a positive attitude and to make the best of any situation, no matter how challenging it may be.