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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.

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Robert Baden-Powell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1857
Born: February 22
Died: 1941
Died: January 8
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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.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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It is risky to order a boy not to do something it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
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The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
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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.
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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. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: Use your common sense rather than book instructions.
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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.
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If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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Be Prepared. Be prepared for what? Why, for any old thing.
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Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
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See things from the boy's point of view.
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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.
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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
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Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
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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
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to play polo with him i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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