Robert Baden-Powell

“If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer object...”

“It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the B...”

“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 onl...”

“All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.”

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

“A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”

“Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is...”

“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.”

“The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts...”

“Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and t...”

“Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.”

“It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his...”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”