Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
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Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
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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.
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As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
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The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
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Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
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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.
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
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Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
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"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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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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If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
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A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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