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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
— Robert Baden-Powell
Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
— Robert Baden-Powell
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
— Robert Baden-Powell
To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
— Robert Baden-Powell
There is no teaching to compare with example.
— Baden Powell
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
— Robert Baden-Powell
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.
— Baden Powell
Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
— 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
The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
— Robert Baden-Powell
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
— Robert Baden-Powell
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
— Robert Baden-Powell
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
— Baden Powell De Aquino
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
— Robert Baden-Powell
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The secret of gettingsuccessful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell - in
the clearness of the instructions they receive. — Robert Baden-Powell
Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
— Robert Baden-Powell
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
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
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
— Robert Baden-Powell
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Leave it better than you found it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
— Robert Baden-Powell
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.
— Robert Baden-Powell
We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
— Robert Baden-Powell
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
— Robert Baden-Powell
"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
— Robert Baden-Powell
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
— Robert Baden-Powell
See things from the boy's point of view.
— Robert Baden-Powell