Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

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

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

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

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

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

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

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

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.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

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.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.