Sir Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

The question is not "What can I get?" but "What can I give in life?

There is no teaching to compare with example.

When next you are worried or angry, force yourself to turn up the corners of your mouth and smile-and you will find the value of this tip.

For these [difficulties] I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

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.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

There is no teaching to compare with example