Baden Powell de Aquino famous quotes

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Fun #Fighting

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Children #Boys

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Men #Spirit

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Discipline #Individual

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Hunting #Earning

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Law #Force

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Animal #Boys

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Games #Moral

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Interest

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Joining

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Judging #Defeated

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Training #Want

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Selfishness

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Scouting

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Doors #Needs

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Brother #Boys

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Scouting

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Bears

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Adults #Boyhood

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Individual

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Likes

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Jobs #Cutting

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Men

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Doe

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Games #Competition

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #School #Sunday

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Ambition #Boys

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Dirty #Adventure

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Selfishness #Brooding

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Real #Giving

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Knights #Gentleman

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Light

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Attitude #Boys

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Teach #Scouting

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Memorial

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Responsibility #Boys

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom #Boys #Training