Quotes on Scouting

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

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.

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

I strongly believe in Scouting. ... It's a source of great strength to us.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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.