Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell
Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM GCMG GCVO KCB DL, also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth22 February 1857
Robert Baden-Powell quotes about
taken unexpected surprise
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
wisdom character responsibility
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
adventure boys order
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
wisdom responsibility giving
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
creativity design found
Leave it better than you found it.
people contentment
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
wisdom boys hygiene
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
girl country patriotic
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 country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.
leadership thinking looks
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
life men hands
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 would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.
girl real visionaries
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
outcomes wealth pleasure
Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
taken thinking emergencies
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.
inspirational listening marketing
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.