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Men Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor…
- "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
- The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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