Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place. "

Robert Baden-Powell

Related Quotes:

" Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Try and 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. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest 'weaknesses'; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character. "

Robert Baden-Powell

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

Robert Baden-Powell

" The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for one's neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy. "

Robert Baden-Powell

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

Robert Baden-Powell

" I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. "

Robert Baden-Powell

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

Robert Baden-Powell

" You may be rich, but there is one thing you can't afford - that is, if you are a good sort - you can't afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" 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