As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one." Robert Baden-Powell More Quotes by Robert Baden-Powell More Quotes From Robert Baden-Powell We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. Robert Baden-Powell failing military trying 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 Robert Baden-Powell done feelings trying The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell achieving-happiness trying life 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. Robert Baden-Powell often-is life country A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. Robert Baden-Powell six-months wisdom teaching 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. Robert Baden-Powell levels leadership looks 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. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life. Robert Baden-Powell girl boys life Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still. Robert Baden-Powell leadership looks thinking Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure. Robert Baden-Powell wealth pleasure outcomes 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. Robert Baden-Powell emergencies taken thinking Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation. Robert Baden-Powell dolls girl real A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell unexpected surprise taken Leave this world a little better than you found it. Robert Baden-Powell creativity design found If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell marketing listening inspirational A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. Robert Baden-Powell cub-scout scouting circumstances 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. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man. Robert Baden-Powell men life hands 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. Robert Baden-Powell contentment happiness people 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. Robert Baden-Powell driving secret sound The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. Robert Baden-Powell differences class country We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. Robert Baden-Powell patriotic girl country
