65 result(s) for Robert Baden-Powell Quotes.
"Try to leave this world a little better than you found it."
"A boy is not a sitting-down animal."
"Show me a poorly uniformed scout and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
"Service to others is not a duty but a privilege and a joy."
"Success does not mean the absence of failures, it means the attainment of ultimate objectives."
"The more you give, the more you are likely to get back."
"The boy is not governed by don't, but by do."
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"The solution of adult life's problems can never be attained on an honest basis except through training in childhood days."
"Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide – look wider still."
"The uniform makes the Boy Scout look like the best sort of fellow. It makes him look courteous and alert and well-mannered."
"The chief duty of a leader is to get his people to the right place at the right time."
"The good turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness."
"One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man."
"Every Scout ought to be able to tie knots. To tie a knot is to build a bridge between two ropes."
"Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size."
"There is no religious ‘side’ of the movement. The whole of it is based on religion, that is, on the realization and service of God."
"The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching."
"Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best."
"A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room."
"If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk."
"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."
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"Every scout ought to be able to pitch a tent, to cook a meal, to mend a shirt, to tie a knot, and to render first aid."
"The patrol method is the only way we can make the boy the center of his own activities in the troop."
"Service to others is a good lesson for all of us."
"Be Prepared."
"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."
"Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still."
"Have fun with your clothes: I used to carry a punk record around with me because I loved the way it looked."
"The open air is the real objective of Scouting and the key to its success."
"A scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens."
"Every Scout ought to be able to pitch a tent and cook grub."
"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
"The Patrol System is the one essential feature in which Scout training differs from that of the ordinary army."
"The big chief who controls the council and the lodging loosens up, the middle way is the way, and the little chiefs handle the details."
"The patrol system is not one method in which Scouting for Boys can be applied. It is the only method."
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"Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings."
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
"Try and leave this world a little better than you found it."
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
"There is no teaching to compare with example."
"The essence of good leadership is to have a pride in yourself and your team."
"The most important step is that which shall bring me nearer to doing the thing I know I should do."
"There is no religious side to the Movement. The whole of it is based on religion, that is, on the realization and service of God."
"Every Scout should have a skill and every Scout should have a chance to be recognized for that skill."
"Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man."
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
"The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others."
"Success is getting up once oftener than you fall down."
"The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct."
"Leave this world a little better than you found it."
"A scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
"The man who is too anxious to get money too soon may never get it at all."
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
"The open-air is the real objective of Scouting and the key to its success."
"Every Scout ought to be able to pitch a tent and cook a meal."
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
"The uniform makes the boy a member of the world-wide brotherhood of scouts."
"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
"The essence of success in life is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
"The patrol method is not a way to operate a Boy Scout troop, it is the only way."
"Be prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise."
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
"It is the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man."
"No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way."
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