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

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.

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.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.