Boy Scout Quotes

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

  George Carlin

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Hygiene

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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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• 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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• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

  Christopher Bram

  Kids, Gay, Boys

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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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• 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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• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

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• ...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared.

  Christopher Golden

  Boys, Vampire, Bags

  Christopher Golden, Nancy Holder (2012). “Buffy the Vampire Slayer #2: Halloween Rain; Bad Bargain; AfterImage”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Army, Boys

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• Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

  Steve Fossett

  Integrity, Character, Boys

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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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