1
2
3
5
8
12
20
33
52
83
133
213
340
543
867
1384
2208
3346
3522
5443
5619
6757
7581
7860
7861
7862
7863
7864
8098
8422
8625
8752
8832
8882
8913
8932
8945
8953
8957
8960
8962
8963
8964
8965
▲
▼
| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2255c12 | Their main criticism of the kind of books and talks that motivate and inspire people is that the impact is often fleeting - that the effects of the book or talk don't last. My response is to say: of course it is fleeting, of course it is temporary. But so are the effects of washing your armpits - that's why you should wash them every day! Likewise with motivation - we have to have it every day. We have to fill ourselves up to overflowing wi.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 09aecd0 | But what the heck does that mean?! You see, I think 'trying' isn't the only word you should jettison from your dictionary. Let's take the word 'problem' - that one instantly seems to me like a hassle and a pain. I replace it with 'challenge'. All of a sudden, something that seemed oppressive and negative becomes an obstacle course to be negotiated. Changing the words you use will help you change your attitude to the situation you're in and .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| b93f2ac | Changing the words you use will help you change your attitude to the situation you're in and the life you live. Do you hear that? | Bear Grylls | ||
| 7fe0f76 | Let me explain... Mountains - and all the natural struggles and obstacles they present - are also arenas to find out what we are made of. It just takes us to be willing to dig deep and push on hard enough and long enough to find that strength. But most people give up before they find it. This is why most people never reach the summit of their goals. They quit when the winds pick up. They let their heads dip when it gets hard. (There is a.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| b17f9c2 | This is why it's important that you find the rewards you seek from the work itself. I would be climbing mountains and throwing myself off cliffs even if I wasn't being paid to do it - because I can bet you that Mozart would have made music even if no one had listened. (In fact, he did, and for a large part of his life no one cared.) So often it takes actors or climbers or musicians decades to find 'success', but they eventually triumph be.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5710677 | I have made the mistake all too often in the past of taking experts' advice as gold, as the only 'right' option. It has often been against my instinct, and it has all too frequently landed me in trouble. So-called experts might know their field, but they don't always know the whole picture of what's right. Especially for you. I know some very wealthy people who don't even live where they want to because their accountant told them they could.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 416fc24 | Listening carefully to this voice is how we distinguish ourselves from the rest of the crowd who so often barge through life, too busy or too proud even to acknowledge their intuition's existence. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 301f498 | Their main criticism of the kind of books and talks that motivate and inspire people is that the impact is often fleeting - that the effects of the book or talk don't last. My response is to say: of course it is fleeting, of course it is temporary. But so are the effects of washing your armpits - that's why you should wash them every day! | Bear Grylls | ||
| 010897c | I remember once in the Arctic, when we were attempting to cross the frozen North Atlantic in a small, open rigid inflatable boat (RIB), that I heard that voice very clearly. We had been caught out in a monster, sub-zero, gale-force 8 storm, 400 miles off the coast of Greenland - and we were struggling. We were reduced to a crawl as we battled up and down huge, freezing waves and crashing white water. It felt like only a matter of time befor.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 21232dc | It isn't clouded by ego or others' opinions - those fickle things live in the conscious mind. Your instinct has a clearer purpose: to help you. Listen to it. Learn to recognize it. Acknowledge it when it speaks and have faith in it. Instinct is the nose of the mind. So trust it. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 008580f | You see, life is unpredictable, and as sure as eggs is eggs, it won't always swing your way. But when those storms come I have a clear and simple mantra: In other words: Nature has a way of rewarding that sort of attitude. Sometimes life tests us a little. Things we had banked on coming in just don't work out. People let you down, one disaster follows another. You know the phrase: it never rains but it pours. When those times come we have .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 57903d8 | You see, we are all a bit like grapes: when you squeeze us, you see what we are made of. And I believe that most people are far stronger than they ever imagine. It is refined within us from thousands of years of having to survive as a species. It might be dusty and hidden away, but it is there somewhere inside you: So don't shy away from hard times, they are your chance to shine. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 6b54cf1 | Write this on your bathroom mirror: | Bear Grylls | ||
| cc078d0 | It's very tempting, when we experience a little bit of success, to think that our good fortune is down to our skill, our brilliance or our good nature. That might be a part of it, of course, but the truth is that every successful person has had great help and support from others. And the really successful person also has the humility to acknowledge that. When you clam too much credit for yourself, or you shout too loudly of your success, yo.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 3097efe | God recommends his own love to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| 381ff53 | But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| ab8742a | Take a look at one of the greatest inventors to have ever lived, Sir Isaac Newton. In a letter to his great rival Robert Hooke, he wrote that his work on the theory of gravity had only been possible because of the scholarship of those who had gone before him. 'If I have seen a little further,' he wrote, 'it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.' I instantly admire him even more for saying that. You see, all great men and women stand on.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| bbcf8c1 | Conversely, note how those who laugh at are the people we instinctively pull away from. People who laugh at others are really showing that they think they're better than the people they're making fun of. And if they laugh at them, then we naturally think that maybe next time they will be laughing at us - behind our backs. And no one likes that. The ability to laugh at yourself also shows to others that you adhere to one of the great teach.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 712ba91 | Psalm 121 says: Good person to have on side, I always figure. Now, some of you will say, hey, I don't need this Christian stuff. And I hear you. But it is easy to be cynical when all is going your way. Remember that. Robin Knox-Johnston, the round-the-world sailor, said: What that says to me is unless you know what it is like to be truly afraid and have no one around to help you, then don't preach to me your atheism. And, wow, it takes a.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 2dd1314 | Instead, finding a faith should help you to be freer, more full of life, more filled with joy, peace and love than you would ever imagine. And those qualities, in abundance, will only make you stronger and more capable of living a wild and adventurous life. And what is even cooler is that Jesus turns out to be so much more than just a guide or a pointer of the way. He is also a backbone, a companion and a friend. When I look at my own heroe.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| b858cb2 | karen-russell occurrence-00-422 | Bear Grylls | ||
| 679e3a3 | You just have to hang on in there through those dark hours - don't give up, let the mountain sustain you and empower you, and you will experience the mountain within you. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 74043fc | Dwelling on mistakes, endlessly replaying scenes in your head, only makes them grow. So the next time you find yourself lying in bed at night, cursing your stupidity or foolishness, it's worth reminding yourself that, in all probability, the mistake isn't that big a deal to anyone else. Too often we can be our own hardest critic and worst enemy. Let it go and don't waste more energy on regrets than you need to. There's a very good reason wh.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 5d85f09 | Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| 1121ab5 | In fact, the will to win means nothing if you don't also have the will to train. The day of the race is the easy bit: all eyes are on you and the adrenalin is running high. the unglamorous times when it is raining at 5:30 a.m. and you don't want to get out of your warm bed to go for a run. I love the story of Daley Thompson, the decathlete who won gold at two Olympics. He used to say his favourite day of the year to train was Christmas Da.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 6a4c571 | I'm going to trust that if you are smart enough to build a successful life then you should be smart enough to understand that giving money is as much about the spirit as it is about the actual amounts. (And remember: one thing is for certain, giving money doesn't get us to Heaven. Heaven is a gift that was bought for us at a price greater than any of us can afford. But giving money away is a definite by-product of having received that gift!.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 48ee53b | Give to friends who do amazing jobs but who earn very little, give to charities that move you, give to those the world overlooks, give as your heart tells you - and learn to listen to it. And by all means live a great life yourself along the way - why not? You have worked hard for it, paid your taxes and you deserve it. The main thing to remember, though, is to keep giving lots of money away as well. If you do, then, in return, it will do m.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| bba7648 | Adventure is unpredictable, and you had better learn to be flexible and to swing with the punches, or you will get beaten - it's as simple as that. If the adventure is an exciting one, you can bet your bottom dollar you will get hit by the occasional punch in the face. Knowing that things will and do go wrong in the heat of battle is actually half the battle. It means that when it happens you are ready for it - you can react fast, stay nim.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| c955618 | He needed to do ten days' worth of work in one. Early the next morning, before the sun came up, Mark was awake and downstairs, getting ready for his monster mission to get through his to-do list. He made a quick cup of tea, did a couple of stretches, then hit his desk with huge energy and total focus. He had to get through this and get to Fiji, and he had to do it That morning he worked like he had never worked before: he didn't dodge the .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 6b6a8fb | Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love. | Bible quotes about love | ||
| 6e24da4 | This circumstance of an expanding universe is irritating. | Big Bang | ||
| bf05f52 | just keep going. JKG. Winston Churchill said it in one of the darkest moments of World War Two, when the outlook was as bleak as it had ever been. On 10 May 1940, the British looked to be finished. They stood alone against the vicious and victorious Nazis. Two weeks after Churchill came to power, France was knocked out of the war, and 340,000 British troops had to scramble to escape over the beaches at Dunkirk. The Germans had absolute cont.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 6e6c98b | So accept that fact. But don't despair, because the good news is that help is nearer at hand than you might imagine. You see, if I am going to enter a difficult jungle or uncharted mountain range, I always make sure I have a good guide. Life is the same. Go it alone, by all means, but you make the journey that much harder. Trust me. To give yourself the best shot of reaching your destination and achieving all you are meant to in your life, .. | Bear Grylls | ||
| d4670c2 | And who better to have as a guide than the person who made the path or the mountain in the first place! | Bear Grylls | ||
| 84ac03c | When we give up, we know our destiny. When we keep going, we earn the right to choose our fate. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 360f539 | One of the books that has had the most influence on me is a little manual called by Scott Alexander. I know, it's a weird title, but give it a read. I read it first when I was 12 years old and I still read it once a year to this day. It teaches you in life to be like a rhino - to have a single purpose, to charge at obstacles and goals with total commitment and to develop a thick skin to deal with the slings and arrows that try to slow you.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 151c8db | There are always crunch times on a mountain when you have to weigh up the odds for success against the risks of cold, bad weather or avalanche. But in essence the choice is simple - If you risk nothing, you gain nothing. The great climbers know that great summits don't come easy - they require huge, concerted, continuous effort. But mountains reward real effort. So does life and business. Everything that is worthwhile requires risk and eff.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| d4f9cf7 | Say "why not?" rather than "why?" | Bear Grylls | ||
| 4e131a3 | The greater the effort, the better the reward. So learn to embrace hard work and great effort and risk. Without them, there can be no meaningful achievement. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 0375b5d | Any mental flaw, any physical failing will be exposed by the relentless series of challenges aimed at finding your breaking point. Lung-bursting cross-mountain marches through the snow, uphill sprints, carrying another recruit in a fireman's lift up and down steep hills, often in driving rain, sometimes in sub-zero temperatures. As selection goes on, these 'beasting' sessions get harder and harder. And yet I also found that the more of them.. | Bear Grylls | ||
| 9758764 | To admit such possibilities seems senseless to me. | Big Bang | ||
| ccea2b1 | All you have to do is give it an opportunity to be unleashed. So pick big targets and surprise yourself with how capable you really are deep down. Remember David and Goliath? Rather than David, the young shepherd boy, looking at this giant of a warrior and thinking, 'Yikes, he's huge, I'm beat' - he thought, 'With a target that big, how can I possibly miss!' | Bear Grylls | ||
| a72a372 | All you have to do is give it an opportunity to be unleashed. | Bear Grylls | ||
| f42404c | Remember that society's status is hollow and transitory, but genuine character and action endures and shines long after the fluff has gone. | Bear Grylls |