Bear Praise

Jack loved to hunt. Every winter he went out with his friends on the weekends looking for bear. One weekend, he couldn’t find a friend to go with, so he went out into the woods himself.

In the middle of a forest, he was taking a break when suddenly he was confronted by the largest, meanest looking bear he had ever seen. In his fear, all attempts to shoot the bear were unsuccessful.

Finally, he turned and ran as fast as he could in a vain attempt to outrun the bear. Jack ran and ran and ran, until he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim.

Seeing no way out of his predicament, and with the bear closing in rather quickly, Jack got down on his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, “Dear Lord! Please give this bear some *religion*!”

The skies darkened and there was lightning in the air. Just a few feet short of Jack, the bear came to an abrupt stop, and glanced around, somewhat confused. He seemed to have become very calm and friendly...

Suddenly, the bear looked up into the sky, put his paws together, bent his head and said, “Thank you, Lord, for the food I am about to receive.”

QuotaBills
Just praise is only a debt. - G Berkeley

Support the right to arm bears. - Unknown

Self praise is no praise at all. - Lord Byron

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. - T S Eliot

Praise is ever attendant on great wealth. - Roman Proverb

Praise the ripe field, not the green corn. - Unknown

I will praise any man that will praise me. - William Shakespeare

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing. - Unknown

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions. - Thomas Hobbes

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. - Mary Oliver

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

He that searches for praise will often find contempt. - Norman MacDonald

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. - Bette Midler

To praise great actions is in some sense to share them. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

And if I please you so, my lover, remember praise is comely. - Countee Cullen

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. - Marguerite

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. - Plutarch

Praise is rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. - Martin F Tupper

Most people would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? - Jane Austen

Endurance is not only to bear the hard thing but to turn it into glory. - Win Barclay

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. - Charlotte Lennox

Thanks to this man I've gone from over-the-counter to over-the-barrel. - Unknown

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. - Josh Billins

Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bum steers. - Olin Miller

Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it. - Ivan Panin

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

A bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he's talented, but he's not famous. - Kim Kardashian

Praise is the weapon God gives you to leverage the negative circumstances of your life. - David Evans

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. - William Glasser

The praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. - Julius C Hare

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. - John Wooden

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. - Virginia Satir

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen. - James Russell Lowell

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

see also Bear & Safety Sections
Bear Pinata
Bear Print
Bear Protection
Canadian Food Chain
Canadian High Five
Golf Gimme
Grizzly Bear Chair
I Found A Bear Cub!
Russian Car Pool
Salmon Fight

Bear Praise

Survival kit for bears

05-Jun-2020