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No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
Robert Baden-Powell
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
Robert Baden-Powell
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
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
Robert Baden-Powell
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Robert Baden-Powell
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
Robert Baden-Powell
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
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
Robert Baden-Powell
The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell-in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
Robert Baden-Powell
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.
Robert Baden-Powell
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
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
Robert Baden-Powell
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
Robert Baden-Powell
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.
Robert Baden-Powell
If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb,; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.
Robert Baden-Powell
Be Prepared.
Robert Baden-Powell
Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.
Robert Baden-Powell
Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it. Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.
Robert Baden-Powell
I went and saw a lot of them at their daily practice of fencing with bamboo sticks and practicing jiu-jitsu to make themselves strong and active and good-tempered. I say good-tempered because it is very much like boxing; you have to take a good many hard knocks and take them smiling. If a fellow lost his temper at it, everybody would laugh at him and think him a fool. In jiu-jitsu they learn how to exercise and how to develop their muscles, how to catch hold of an enemy in many different ways so as to overpower him, how to throw him and, what is very important, how to fall easily if they get thrown themselves. I expect the Scouts of Japan, if they visit England later on, will be able to show us a thing or two in this line.
Robert Baden-Powell
I have gone home (or "Going home") - the Boy Scout trail sign "☉" on his tombstone in a tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya.
Robert Baden-Powell
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