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Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

English - Soldier | February 22, 1857 - January 8, 1941

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

Daily Time Environment Country Right

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

Robert Baden-Powell

Responsibility Will More Respond His

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

Robert Baden-Powell

Character Responsibility Training Put

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

Work Best Game Look Play Kind

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Robert Baden-Powell

Nothing Christianity Than Less

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

Knowledge Brother Sympathy Proud Way

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

Yourself You Matter Him Hurry Going

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Robert Baden-Powell

Trust Training Moral Our Should

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

Robert Baden-Powell

Character Children Quality Training

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Robert Baden-Powell

Man Religion Practice Book Him Soon

See things from the boy's point of view.

Robert Baden-Powell

View Point Of View Boy See Point

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 Time Hero Responsibility See

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