Robert Baden-Powell Boys Quotations

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

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

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

See things from the boy's point of view.

After forming a cadet corps of boys for assisting as noncombatants during a military campaign in 1900: We then made the discovery that boys, when trusted and relied on, were just as capable and reliable as men.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!

Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.

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.