Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope..

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim..

Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CH….

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

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

Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, a….

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..

The 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….

I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the….

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances..

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 helpfu….

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when tru….

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

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 spi….

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure..

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..

Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe ….

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

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training..

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

Leave this world a little better than you found it..