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

- Robert Baden-Powell

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

- Robert Baden-Powell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

- Robert Baden-Powell

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…

- Robert Baden-Powell

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…

- Robert Baden-Powell

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

- Robert Baden-Powell

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…

- Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

- Robert Baden-Powell

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…

- Robert Baden-Powell