Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
"A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim."
- 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
(Related: Boys, Play)
"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
(Related: Accident, Act, Meaning, Thinking)
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Habits, Punishment)
"When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Want)
"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Duty, Neglect)
"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Trust, Training)
"To get a hold on boys you must be their friend."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Friend, Boys)
"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Light, Spirit)
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Happiness, Worth)
"The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Leaders, Responsibility, Will)
"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Success, Example, Training)
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Leader)
"See things from the boy's point of view."
- Robert Baden-Powell
"If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Gain, Listening, Observation, Occupation, Talk, Will)
"An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Character, Responsibility, Training)
"The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country."
- Robert Baden-Powell
(Related: Brotherhood, Class, Country)