Try and 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. Read Summary
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Read Summary
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. Read Summary
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. Difficulties are the salt of life. Read Summary
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb. Read Summary
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. Read Summary
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws. Read Summary
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. Read Summary
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. Read Summary
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. Read Summary
If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him. Read Summary
See things from the boy's point of view. Read Summary
Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don't know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room. Read Summary
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Read Summary
A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense. Read Summary
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life. Read Summary
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience. Read Summary