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

Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
Adventurer
Explorer
Motivational Speaker
Mountaineer
Television Presenter
Writer
London
England
Edward Michael Grylls
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Someone
Live
Life
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Recipes
Disaster

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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.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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Without risk, there can be no growth.
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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.
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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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I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
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Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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The only difference between 'try' and 'triumph' is varying degrees of 'umph'
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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.
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I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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