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You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times
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Girls aside, the other thing I found in the last few years of being at school, was a quiet, but strong Christian faith - and this touched me profoundly, setting up a relationship or faith that has followed me ever since. I am so grateful for this. It has provided me with a real anchor to my life and has been the secret strength to so many great adventures since. But it came to me very simply one day at school, aged only sixteen. As a young ..
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Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves.
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I love the quote she once gave me: "When supply seems to have dried up, look around you quickly for something to give away." It is a law of the universe: to get good things you must first give away good things. (And of course this applies to love and friendship, as well.)"
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Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life--blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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Whether it is the wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, family or friends, so often those closest to us are the ones who get the worst of us. It is as if we feel that they are the only ones we can be grumpy with, and we save our best for our guests or for work. But this is a recipe for struggle. The smart man and woman save the best for those they love. If we show our loved ones the most gratitude every day, then life will smile on us in re..
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And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.
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That fine line between bravery and stupidity is endlessly debated - the difference really doesn't matter.
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But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.
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If you want it bad enough, you'll pass.
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At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.
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Sometimes an ember is all we need.
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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.
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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.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. It can also make them fun to be around.
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I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.
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If the person you're speaking to will think worse or less of the person you're speaking about, then it's gossip, so cut it out!
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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.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.' Pearl S. Buck
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Walter came from a strong line of self-motivated, determined folk: not grand, not high-society, but no-nonsense, family-minded, go-getters. His grandfather had been Samuel Smiles, who, in 1859, authored the original motivational book, titled It was a landmark work, and an instant bestseller, even outselling Charles Darwin's when it was first launched. Samuel's book also made plain the mantra that hard work and perseverance were the ke..
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Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.
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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.
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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.
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Tentative holds no power.
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Sometimes you have just got to tackle these mountains head-on.
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Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The DS had told us the parameters - run, you pass; walk, you fail.
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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.
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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)
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You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things!
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Mr. Sturgess ran the classes with iron, ex-military discipline. We each had spots on the floor, denoting where we should stand rigidly to attention, awaiting our next task. And he pushed us hard. It felt like Mr. Sturgess had forgotten that we were only age six--but as kids, we loved it. It made us feel special. We would line up in rows beneath a metal bar, some seven feet off the ground, then one by one we would say: "Up, please, Mr. Sturg..
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When my parents were away, I would often be sent to spend the night in the house of an older lady who I didn't know, and who didn't seem to know me, either. (I assume it was a friendly neighbor or acquaintance, or at least hope it was.) I hated it. I remember the smell of the old leather photo frame containing a picture of my mum and dad that I would cling to in the strange bed. I was too young to understand that my parents would be coming ..
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Through all these times and formative young years, Lara, my sister, was a rock to me. My mother had suffered three miscarriages after having Lara, and eight years on she was convinced that she wasn't going to be able to have more children. But Mum got pregnant, and she tells me she spent nine months in bed to make sure she didn't miscarry. It worked. Mum saved me. The end result, though, was that she was probably pleased to get me out, and ..
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Families are like fudge--mostly sweet with a few nuts!
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Three words that are the beating heart behind why many explorers or adventurers do what they do. 'Because it's there.
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Almost a hundred years earlier, to the day, Samuel Smiles had written the final pages of his book It included this moving tale of heroism as an example for the Victorian Englishman to follow. For the fate of my great-grandfather, Walter, it was poignant in the extreme. The vessel was steaming along the African coast with 472 men and 166 women and children on board. The men consisted principally of recruits who had been only a short time i..
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Samuel Smiles ends his book with the following moving story of the "gentleman" general: The gentleman is characterized by his sacrifice of self, and preference of others, in the little daily occurrences of life...we may cite the anecdote of the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby, of whom it is related, that, when mortally wounded in the battle of Aboukir, and, to ease his pain, a soldier's blanket was placed under his head, from which he experien..
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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.
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The area became known affectionately by the other recruits as simply: 'The asshole of the world.
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These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mundane.
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It wasn't until the final years of her life that Neville and Patsie became almost reunited. Neville now lived a few hundred yards from the house that I grew up in as a teenager on the Isle of Wight, and Patsie in her old age would spend long summers living with us there as well. The two of them would take walks together and sit on the bench overlooking the sea. But Neville always struggled to let her in close again, despite her warmth and t..
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