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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.
Is your ego small enough, and your backbone strong enough, to raise others up high on your shoulders?
Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.
One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.
I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.
You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.
Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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.
Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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.
Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't.
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.
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.
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.
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.
You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.
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.
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!
I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
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.