Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
- 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…
- If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
- A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
- A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
- Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
- Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
- When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
- See things from the boy's point of view.
- A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
- The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
- Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you…
- Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere…
- 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…