Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Boys

Suggestions

Wisdom

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

Friendship

Powerful

Success

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

Boys

Men

Military

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

Life

Success

Suggestions

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.

Home

Learning

Wise

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.

Emergencies

Taken

Thinking

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.

Girl

Memories

Time

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Football

Games

Play

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.

Friendship

Play

Young Friends

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Boys

Men

Minutes

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Believe

Book

Boys

Brother

Character

Class

Country

Day Of Rest

Differences

Done

Driving

Emergencies

Feelings

Football

Friendship

Games

Girl

Hands

Helping

Home

Hygiene

Individual

Joy

Leadership

Learning

Life

Loafing

Loyalty

Lying

Matter

Memories

Men

Might

Military

Minutes

Missing

Moral

Patriotic

Play

Powerful

Real

Responsibility

Scouting

Secret

Sound

Success

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Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

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.

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place, and to play the game, and these are the best of training for any game of life.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

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