Top 160 Bear Grylls Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “We can’t always choose our circumstances but we can choose how we respond to what life throws at us, and there is power when we realize our ability to alter our destiny.”

— Bear Grylls

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

— Bear Grylls

54. “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.”

— Bear Grylls

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “I love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!”

— Bear Grylls

59. “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

60. “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

61. “I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you’re stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

— Bear Grylls

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “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

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

— Bear Grylls

67. “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

68. “I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.”

— Bear Grylls

69. “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

70. “Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.”

— Bear Grylls

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

— Bear Grylls

72. “Tentative holds no power.”

— Bear Grylls

73. “That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated – the difference really doesn’t matter.”

— Bear Grylls

74. “The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.”

— Bear Grylls

75. “I said ‘no’ to the ‘Born Survivor’ producer three times because I’ve never aspired to be a TV man.”

— Bear Grylls

76. “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

77. “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.”

— Bear Grylls

78. “You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.”

— Bear Grylls

79. “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.”

— Bear Grylls

80. “As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.”

— Bear Grylls

81. “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

82. “Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way – hence we shouldn’t ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give – that’s a much better benchmark.”

— Bear Grylls

83. “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.”

— Bear Grylls

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

— Bear Grylls

85. “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

86. “At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.”

— Bear Grylls

87. “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

88. “But I also knew if I could somehow replace my doubt with hope, my fear with courage, and my self-pity with a sense of pride, then I just might be able to do this.”

— Bear Grylls

89. “There is no feeling like coming home after danger.”

— Bear Grylls

90. “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

91. “The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.”

— Bear Grylls

92. “You climb only because the mountain allows it. If it says wait, then you must wait, and when it allows you to go, then you must struggle and strain in the thin air with all your might. Listening to the mountain and having patience on it are the keys to survival.”

— Bear Grylls

93. “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.”

— Bear Grylls

94. “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

95. “But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.”

— Bear Grylls

96. “In every potential sponsor’s eyes, I was a nobody. And soon I had notched up more rejection letters than is healthy for any one man to receive.”

— Bear Grylls

97. “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

98. “Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts!”

— Bear Grylls

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

— Bear Grylls

100. “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