Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Show
You
Me
Related Quotes:
" In assisting his 'neighbour' every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Honesty
God
Day
" One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Stop
Powerful
People
" 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
Life
Happiness
Step
" A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Risks
Game
Good
" Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Done
Bad
Bad Habits
" 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
Imagination
View
Dress
" When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Want
You
Done
" 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
Meaning
Thinking
Motto
" A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Endurance
Men
Good
" Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Discipline
Stupidity
Nature
" 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
Way
Sympathy
Proud
" It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Knowledge
Learning
Work
" 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
Kind
People
Reading
" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Happiness
Lives
Most
" Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Good
Day
Faith
" Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Own
Success
Personal
" One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Stick
Always
Place
" A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Scout
Circumstances
Smiles
" There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Time
Country
Daily
" 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
Possible
Boy
Us
" The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Best
Work
Play
" Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Less
Than
Nothing
" It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me. "
Robert Baden-Powell
War
Me
You
" 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
World
God
Nature
" 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
Neighbor
Respect
Development
" An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Responsibility
Put
Character
" 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
Training
Excellence
Exercise
" The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.' "
Robert Baden-Powell
Small Things
Detail
Success
" A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. "
Robert Baden-Powell
More
Out
Aim
" The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice. "
Robert Baden-Powell
Great
See
Time