Robert Baden-Powell Quotes About Scouting

Quotes about: Scouting

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Inspirational, Listening, Marketing

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Trying, Achieving Happiness

  Robert Baden-Powell's letter, September 1940.

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Giving

• 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

  Taken, Thinking, Emergencies

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

• A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Circumstances, Scouting, Cub Scout

  Robert Baden-Powell (1918). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.45, Cedar Fort

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Teaching, Six Months

• 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.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Winning, Helping

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Leadership, Wisdom, Scouting

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Taken, Unexpected, Surprise

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

• To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Holding On

  "Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship".

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Games

• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Suggestions

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Adventure, Boys

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Education, Wisdom, Boys

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Done, Want

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Hygiene

• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Punishment, Done

• See things from the boy's point of view.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Views

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Real, Matter, Scouting

  "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.

• Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Light, Games, Benefits

  "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Character

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