An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellIt is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
Robert Baden-PowellThe secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshellโin the clearness of the instructions they receive.
Robert Baden-PowellThe first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
Robert Baden-PowellLook 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.
Robert Baden-PowellYoung men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions."
Robert Baden-Powell