Robert Baden-Powell Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Giving

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

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  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.

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  Wisdom, Winning, Helping

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

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Scouting

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

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  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.

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  Wisdom, Boys, Games

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

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  Wisdom, Character, Responsibility

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.309, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

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  Wisdom, Adventure, Boys

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

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  Education, Wisdom, Boys

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

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  Wisdom, Done, Want

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

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  Wisdom, Boys, Hygiene

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

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  Wisdom, Boys, Views

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

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Character

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