Talk:Robert Baden-Powell

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

• 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.

• An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

• Scouts of the World - Brothers Together

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

• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

• There is no teaching to compare with example.

• Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

• I have always believed: That if there is the right spirit, we can kick out the "im" from "impossible"

• Religion seems a very simple thing -

  First: Love and Serve God,

  Second: Love and Serve your neighbour

• There is no Religious side to the Movement, the whole of it is based on religion, that is on the realisation and service of God.

• We have come to judge religion very much as we do a person - if we are snobbish - by its dress.

• While you are living your life on earth, try to do something good which may remain after you.

• Too often we forget when presenting Religion to the boy that he sees it all from a very different point of view from that of grown-ups.

• Yet the natural form of Religion is so simple - it comes from within, from conscience, from observation, from love, for use in all that he does.

• True Religion cannot be taught as a lesson to a class in school.

• It is curious to me that men who profess to be good Christians often forget, in a difficulty, to ask themselves the simple question, "What would Christ have done under the circumstances?"

• The Spirit of Love is after all, the Spirit of God working within you.

• Singing and acting are excellent for training in self-expression. Also they mean good team work, everybody learning his part and doing it well, not for applause for himself but for the success of the whole show.