When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light.… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing;… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout,… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
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… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share
