123 Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell

O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.

I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed to find success in life. A Singalese proverb says: "He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy." The really rich man is the man who has fewest wants.

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

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.

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

Leave it better than you found it.