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

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."

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

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

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

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

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

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

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

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

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

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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

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

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

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

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

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

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.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

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

Leave it better than you found it.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The secret of getting
successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell - in
the clearness of the instructions they receive.

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

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

See things from the boy's point of view.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

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

"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."

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

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

We aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.