Scouting Quotes by Baden Powell de Aquino

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it,…

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

— Baden Powell de Aquino