Daniel Carter Beard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.
-- Daniel Carter Beard

#Boys #Men #He Man
A fellow who cannot throw a flapjack is sadly lacking in the skill one expects to find in a real woodcrafter.
-- Daniel Carter Beard

#Real #Skills #Flapjacks
There is but one way to learn to do a thing and that is to do it.
-- Daniel Carter Beard

#Survival #Way
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

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.
Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
The mind's the standard of the man.
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

Daniel Carter Beard famous quotes

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