Boy Scout Quotes

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

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Training

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Trying, Achieving Happiness

  Robert Baden-Powell's letter, September 1940.

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• The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Light

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• A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Taken, Unexpected, Surprise

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Character, Boys, Honor

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• The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

  Bill Bradley

  Boys, America, Giving

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• 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.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Taken, Thinking, Emergencies

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

  Daniel Carter Beard

  Men, Boys, He Man

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• 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 three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Girl, Boys

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• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Suggestions

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Hygiene

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• The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Games

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• Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Government, Punishment, Done

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• I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code.

  Tommy Lasorda

  School, Army, Gun

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• In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.

  Renee Zellweger

  Kindness, Boys, Quality

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• I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Boys, Poor, Wanted

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?

  Roy H. Williams

  Prayer, Writing, Boys

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• The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future.

  Daniel Carter Beard

  Men, Boys, Legends

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• Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

  Blake Clark

  Military, Army, Boys

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• I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

  Frederick Reines

  Leadership, Boys, Years

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• Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

  Stanley Crouch

  Philosophy, Boys, Persons

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• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  Carl Barks

  Kids, Boys, Years

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• In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Home, Boys

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• My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

  Peter Agre

  Summer, Mom, Cousin

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