Top 65 Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

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

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

The study of Nature brings into a harmonious whole the questions of the Infinite, the Historic, and the Microscopic as part of the Great Creator's work.

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

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.