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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader- Sir Robert Baden Powell

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!; Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder (1987)''}}

{{cquote|No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

{{cquote|The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.|20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|Letter (September, 1940)''}}

{{cquote|Somewhere about 1893 I started teaching Scouting to young soldiers in my regiment. When these young fellows joined the Army they had learned reading, writing, and arithmetic in school but as a rule not much else. They were nice lads and made very good parade soldiers, obeyed orders, kept themselves clean and smart and all that, but they had never been taught to be men, how to look after themselves, how to take responsibility, and so on. They had not had my chances of education outside the classroom. They had been brought up in the herd at school, they were trained as a herd in the Army; they simply did as they were told and had no ideas or initiative of their own. In action they carried out orders, but if their officer was shot they were as helpless as a flock of sheep. Tell one of them to ride out alone with a message on a dark night and ten to one he would lose his way. I wanted to make them feel that they were a match for any enemy, able to find their way by the stars or map, accustomed to notice all tracks and signs and to read their meaning, and able to fend for themselves away from regimental cooks and barracks.|20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|"BE PREPARED", Listener Magazine (1937)''}}

{{cquote|Leave this world a little better than you found it. |20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|Baden-Powell's Last Message (1945)''}}

{{cquote|"Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe," said the Chief, at the same time plunging a hatchet in the midst of a barrel of golden arrows." "From all corners of the earth," said the Chief as soon as the cheering had subsided "you have journeyed to this great gathering of World Fellowship and Brotherhood. Today I send you out from Arrowe to all the World, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship, each one of you my ambassador bearing my message of Love and Fellowship on the wings of Sacrifice and Service, to the end of the Earth. From now on the Scout symbol of Peace is the Golden Arrow. Carry it fast and far so that all men may know the Brotherhood of Man." "To THE NORTH-From the Northlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homelands across the great North Seas as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell."  "TO THE SOUTH-From the Southland you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes under the Southern Cross as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell."  "TO THE WEST-From the Westlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes in the Great Westlands to the Pacific and beyond as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World." "I bid you farewell." "TO THE EAST-From the Eastlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood." "Today I send you back to your homes under the Starry Skies and Burning Suns to your people of the thousand years, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship to the Nations of the Earth, pledging you to keep my trust." "I bid you farewell."|20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|Burying the Hatchet - BP Closing Address at the 3rd World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, 12 August 1929

{{cquote|"Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure."|20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)''}}

{{cquote|I have gone home.|20px|20px|Sir Robert Baden Powell|The Boy Scout trail sign on his simple tombstone in a tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya.

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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

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.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Scouts of the World - Brothers Together

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

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

There is no teaching to compare with example.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

I have always believed: That if there is the right spirit, we can kick out the "im" from "impossible"

Religion seems a very simple thing - First: Love and Serve God, Second: Love and Serve your neighbour

There is no Religious side to the Movement, the whole of it is based on religion, that is on the realisation and service of God.

We have come to judge religion very much as we do a person - if we are snobbish - by its dress.

While you are living your life on earth, try to do something good which may remain after you.

Too often we forget when presenting Religion to the boy that he sees it all from a very different point of view from that of grown-ups.

Yet the natural form of Religion is so simple - it comes from within, from conscience, from observation, from love, for use in all that he does.

True Religion cannot be taught as a lesson to a class in school.

It is curious to me that men who profess to be good Christians often forget, in a difficulty, to ask themselves the simple question, "What would Christ have done under the circumstances?"

The Spirit of Love is after all, the Spirit of God working within you.

Singing and acting are excellent for training in self-expression. Also they mean good team work, everybody learning his part and doing it well, not for applause for himself but for the success of the whole show.