Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell
Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM GCMG GCVO KCB DL, also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth22 February 1857
Robert Baden-Powell quotes about
feelings trying done
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
teaching six-months rooms
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
leadership looks levels
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
leadership thinking looks
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
outcomes wealth pleasure
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
taken thinking emergencies
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.
circumstances scouting cub-scout
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
secret sound driving
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
failure difficult-situations done
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.
friendship powerful fate
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
loyalty character boys
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
punishment government done
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
fundraising old-things be-prepared
"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
trust training moral
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.