If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Topics: Listening
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
There is no teaching to compare with example.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Topics: One liners, Teaching
Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Topics: Loyalty
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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