Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

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.

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

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

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Nobody is going to hand you success. You have to hand yourself to success.

Goodbye” is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say “no” to what always keeps you static!

They worried to an excessive degree about getting gender correct, as if elves gave a shit. Humans could keep their concerns about everyone’s genitalia to themselves.

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

America is not what's wrong with the world.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.