Quotes from Bear Grylls

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.

I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.

But, that guy who quit also missed the real point. Good things come through grit and hard work, and all things worthwhile have a cost. In the case of the SAS, the cost was somewhere around a thousand barrels of sweat.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.' Pearl S. Buck

Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.

He would always say that what really matters in life is to 'Follow your dreams and to look after your friends and family along the way.' That was life in a nutshell for him, and I so hope to pass that on to my boys as they grow up.

Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

Tentative holds no power.

Sometimes you have just got to tackle these mountains head-on.

Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet.

This is your life. Be bold with it. Live it with energy and purpose in the direction that excites you. Listen to your heart, look for your dreams: they are God-inspired.

He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: 'Don't let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get moving faster – whatever your solution is, just do it.

Winston Churchill (him again!) once said words to the effect that everyone gets the chance to make their fortune once, but not everybody takes it.

The DS had told us the parameters – run, you pass; walk, you fail.

The thing about a 'comfort zone' is that it sounds, well, just too comfortable – and when you are too comfortable you lose your edge. That's why I call it a comfort pit, because a pit is somewhere you want to get out of as fast as possible.

You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God. Matthew 5, v.2 (The Message Version)

You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things!

Say why not? rather than why?

A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

Families are like fudge—mostly sweet with a few nuts!

Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.

Stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

As a former pilot in World War I, Walter had always preferred flying as a means of travel, rather than going by sea. Whenever he was in the Dakota, flying over to Northern Ireland, he always asked for the front seat, joking that if it crashed then he wanted to die first.