Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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• Football, in itself, is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally…but it is a vicious game when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.

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• The scouts motto is founded on my initials, it is: BE PREPARED, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your DUTY.

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• To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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• A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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

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• Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

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

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• The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

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

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• When you want a thing done, ‘Don’t do it yourself’ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

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

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• The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

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

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

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

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• Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

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• See things from the boy’s point of view.

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

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• 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.

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Robert Baden-Powell (21)

Birth:	22nd February, 1857
Death:	8th January, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Soldier, Writer

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Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, also known as B.-P., B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement.

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