Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM GCMG GCVO KCB DL, also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, (1857–1941) was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association.
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The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Topics: Listening
There is no teaching to compare with example.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Topics: One liners
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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