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Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

– Robert Baden-Powell

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

– Robert Baden-Powell

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks – that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

– Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a ‘stalker’s eye,’ but which, par excellence, is the soldier’s eye.

– Robert Baden-Powell

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

– Robert Baden-Powell

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

– Robert Baden-Powell

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

– Robert Baden-Powell

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

– Robert Baden-Powell

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 accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

– Robert Baden-Powell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

– Robert Baden-Powell

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

– Robert Baden-Powell

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

– Robert Baden-Powell

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

– Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

– Robert Baden-Powell

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

– Robert Baden-Powell

In assisting his ‘neighbour’ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

– Robert Baden-Powell

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