Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the…

— Robert Baden-Powell

To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

— Robert Baden-Powell

From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives…

— Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

— Robert Baden-Powell

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

— Robert Baden-Powell

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

— Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

— Robert Baden-Powell

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries…

— Robert Baden-Powell

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

— Robert Baden-Powell

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

— Robert Baden-Powell

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

— Robert Baden-Powell

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will…

— Steven Spielberg

Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a…

— Kiersten White