Baden Powell De Aquino Quotes

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.