Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

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

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