Quotes from Bear Grylls

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

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

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

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

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.

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.

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

It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.

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.

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.

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.