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- A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
- A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
- Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
- Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
- Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
- It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
- We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
- Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
- Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
- A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
- Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
- A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
- Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
- We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
- The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
- The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
- In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.
- Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
- Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
- It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
- It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
- You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
- The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
- The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
- A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
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