All Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
- It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both… Asylum
- Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you… All
- Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope. Boundless
- Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some… Any
- A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor… Depends
- I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but… Adversaries
- As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving… Been
- The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth.… Brief
- Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he… Abundant
- Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ. Any
- I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success… All
- I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as… Attributes
- No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may… Any
- Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded… All
- After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when… Assisting
- 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 CHIEF… Abbey
- 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 case… Back Numbers
- Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. Active
- A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. Camp
- It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it. Adventure