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=== | === Baden-Powell Quotes === | ||
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'''Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell''' OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 ; 8 January [[1941]]), also known as '''B-P''', was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the [[Scouting]] movement. | '''Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell''' OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB (22 February 1857 ; 8 January [[1941]]), also known as '''B-P''', was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army, writer, and founder of the [[Scouting]] movement. | ||
Quote from scouting founder - [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]] | Quote #1 from scouting founder - [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]] | ||
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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.</blockquote> | 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.</blockquote> | ||
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<blockquote>One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.</blockquote> | |||
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<blockquote>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.</blockquote> | |||
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<blockquote>Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.</blockquote> | |||
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<blockquote>One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace (Today: Google, Netflix, YouTube, Video Games, etc, etc). The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable. </blockquote> | |||
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[[Category:Scouting methods]] | [[Category:Scouting methods]] | ||
[[Category:Chaplains]] | [[Category:Chaplains]] | ||
[[Category:Robert Baden-Powell]] | |||
