Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

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

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

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

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

See things from the boy's point of view.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

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

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.