Famous Quotes

"My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times."

Bear Grylls on Strength

More quotes about Strength

• "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Strength

• "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Strength

• "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

  Helen Keller on Strength

• "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

  John F. Kennedy on Strength

• "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

  Ernest Hemingway on Strength

More quotes by Bear Grylls

• "I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age."

• "Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical."

• "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."

• "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."

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