Occupation: Writer Birth: February 22, 1857 Death: January 8, 1941
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction ….
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ..
Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian ….
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 em….
We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's ….
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond..
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by si….
Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by th….
Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can d….
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed..
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of po….
I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singal….
The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one ….
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself..
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and….
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others..
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room..
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have no….
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country..
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure..
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….