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

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

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.

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.