Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

• A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
• A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
• A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
• The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
• 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.
• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
• When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
• Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
• To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
• The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
• The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
• The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
• Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
• Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
• See things from the boy's point of view.
• If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
• An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.