Scouting Quotes - Page 2

• Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

  Juliette Gordon Low

  Inspire, Girl Scout, Within You

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• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Memorial

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• Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Adults, Boyhood

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• It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Bears

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• It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Judging, Defeated

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• 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

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• Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Men

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• The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Selfishness

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Inspirational, Listening, Marketing

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Punishment, Done

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• We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Attitude, Boys

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• The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys

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• It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Men, Spirit

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• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  Bear Grylls

  Boys, Modern Life, Young

  "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout". Interview with Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

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• 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.

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• A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Circumstances, Cub Scout, Scoutmasters

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

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• Scouting teaches a boy to take care of himself and stand on his own two feet.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Boys, Two, Feet

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

  Bear Grylls

  Children, Adventure, Opportunity

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• 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

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• The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

  Robert Powell

  Sports, Wisdom, Boys

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• The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

  Bill Bradley

  Boys, America, Giving

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Teaching, Six Months

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• The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Training

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• Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Dirty, Adventure

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

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Light

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