Best 127 quotes of Bear Grylls on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.

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

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.

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

Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

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

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

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.

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

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

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!

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

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.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .

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.

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

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

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

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.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

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.

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.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.

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.

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

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.