Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training… — 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. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth… — 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 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
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image