Top 65 Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

About Robert Baden-Powell

These are some quotes by English author Robert Baden-Powell Soldier, who lived between February 22, 1857 and January 8, 1941.

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

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

Robert Baden-Powell

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Robert Baden-Powell

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

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

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

Robert Baden-Powell

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.

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.

Robert Baden-Powell

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 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

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Robert Baden-Powell

See things from the boy's point of view.

See things from the boy's point of view.

Robert Baden-Powell

From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Robert Baden-Powell

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