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.
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Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said 'Use your common sense rather than book instructions.'Robert Baden-Powell
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947 TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BADEN-POWELL CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.
Robert Baden-Powell
Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as 'the richest man in the world.' That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.
Robert Baden-Powell
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Robert Baden-Powell
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell
Varied are the ideas of what constitutes 'success,' e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every mannor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
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