Scouting Quotes

• The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Real, Giving

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• 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

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• Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Games, Moral

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• Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Doe

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• It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Games, Competition

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• We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, School, Sunday

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• Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Teach

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• Scouting is a Game with a Purpose

  William Hillcourt

  Games, Purpose

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• I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Source

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• When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Interest

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• A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Children, Boys

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• The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Knights, Gentleman

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• You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Discipline, Individual

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• Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Fun, Fighting

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• Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Ambition, Boys

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• We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Training, Want

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• Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Doors, Needs

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Giving

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• I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Government, Eagles, Careers

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• Scouting exposes young men to people and experiences that encourage and nurture positive moral values. But we mustn't take Scouting for granted. You can do nothing more important for young people today than to continue, or begin, your support of Scouting. I have never met anyone with devoted Scouting experience who was not a solid citizen, a loyal friend, and a patriot. We need more of them.

  Wallace G. Wilkinson

  Men, People, Support

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Education, Wisdom, Boys

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Games

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• A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Animal, Boys

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• The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Hunting, Earning

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• The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Law, Force

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