“Epilogue. 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. Make it a happy life while you have it. Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol. The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The Best & Popular Quotes Of Robert Powell at OffQuotes.com. There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I. I love being on stage.

“Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.276, Pan Macmillan, There is a mistake in the text of this quote. Never lose your temper with him. Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still. 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. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Available for download in high resolution. Loafing is not rest. 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. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

Join 48,000+ other people and subscribe to Quotefancy Weekly Digest. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.”, “Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.”, “In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" "How to be happy though rich or poor". Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.”, “Sunday is a day of rest. Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.”, “A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”, “The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work. Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. I frighten people sometimes. Free Daily Quotes. The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work. If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot! The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.10, Pan Macmillan. Difficulties are the salt of life. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks. I'm very good at it. I'm very good at it. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “See things from the boy's point of view.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “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.” -- 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, “Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. 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. True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them. Robert Powell Father Born Mother Housewife I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Don't miss out on our next weekly batch. facebook; twitter; googleplus; With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Robert Powell. Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. That is where success is possible to every man.”, “It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.”, “Happiness is not mere pleasure not the outcome of wealth.

A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span.” -- Robert Baden-Powell, “If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.”, “The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”, “The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.”, “We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”, “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.”, “A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”, “I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.309, Pan Macmillan, Robert Baden-Powell (2013). Robert Powell, Actor: The Italian Job. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation. Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. I'm completely, totally relaxed. A thing that many young fellows don’t seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second. It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. You change. Make it a happy life while you have it. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. Sunday is a day of rest. It's hard work. A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult. Every day we present the best quotes! “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.”, “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.”, “The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”, “Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls.