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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
See things from the boy's point of view.
Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.
To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
To get hold of your boys you must be their friend.
Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.
"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.
The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
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.
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.
The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
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.
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.
"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.
