Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

“Do a good turn daily.”

“The real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people.”

“Paddle your own canoe.”

“Scouting is a game for boys, under the leadership of boys, in which elder brothers can give their younger brothers healthy environment and encourage them to healthy activities.”

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

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

“To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.”

“See things from the boy's point of view.”

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

“The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.”

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

“Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.”

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

“Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.”

“Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.”

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

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

“The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.”

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

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

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

“Erudition (that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic) is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular.”

“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, and leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.”

“One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.”

“Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God. Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbour and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.”