Robert Baden-Powell citáty

„Zanechejme tento svět o něco lepší, než jaký byl, když jsme na něj přišli.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Tajemství úspěšné práce, kterou odvedou tebou vytrénovaní muži závisí na jednom - v jasnosti instrukcí, které dostávají.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Skautský učitel učí chlapce hrát hru tak, že hraje i on.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Věc, která se nejvíce vyplatí, je snažit se vnést štěstí do života druhých.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Pokusme se zanechat tento svět o trochu lepším, než jaký byl, když jsme na něj přišli.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Ti, kteří nejsou pamětliví minulosti jsou odsouzeni zopakovat si ji včetně všech předchozích léček a omylů.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Skauting je hra, a je to hra o velikou sázku.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Skauting odtržený od reality je holý nesmysl.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Život i člun řiď sobě sám.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Skoro každý hlupák umí rozkazovat a může ostatní přinutit, aby jeho příkazy poslouchali, pokud má za sebou dostatečnou moc k jejich potrestání v případě, že ho odmítnou uposlechnout. Něco docela jiného je vést. Strhnout ostatní tak, aby vás následovali, dá opravdu velkou práci.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Skauting může být klíčem k nové výchovné metodě, k tomu, jak zaujmout mládež. Tisíce a statisíce mladých lidí! Bude to druh bratrství bez rozdílu původu, rasy a vyznání, bohatství i chudoby.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

„Somewhere about 1893 I started teaching Scouting to young soldiers in my regiment. When these young fellows joined the Army they had learned reading, writing, and arithmetic in school but as a rule not much else. They were nice lads and made very good parade soldiers, obeyed orders, kept themselves clean and smart and all that, but they had never been taught to be men, how to look after themselves, how to take responsibility, and so on. They had not had my chances of education outside the classroom.
They had been brought up in the herd at school, they were trained as a herd in the Army; they simply did as they were told and had no ideas or initiative of their own. In action they carried out orders, but if their officer was shot they were as helpless as a flock of sheep. Tell one of them to ride out alone with a message on a dark night and ten to one he would lose his way.
I wanted to make them feel that they were a match for any enemy, able to find their way by the stars or map, accustomed to notice all tracks and signs and to read their meaning, and able to fend for themselves away from regimental cooks and barracks.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

"BE PREPARED" http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-listener.htm, Listener Magazine (1937)

„Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell, kniha Aids to Scoutmastership

Aids to Scoutmastership (1920) Preface

„Here is the hatchet of war, of enmity, of bad feeling, which I now bury in Arrowe," said the Chief, at the same time plunging a hatchet in the midst of a barrel of golden arrows."

"From all corners of the earth," said the Chief as soon as the cheering had subsided "you have journeyed to this great gathering of World Fellowship and Brotherhood. Today I send you out from Arrowe to all the World, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship, each one of you my ambassador bearing my message of Love and Fellowship on the wings of Sacrifice and Service, to the end of the Earth. From now on the Scout symbol of Peace is the Golden Arrow. Carry it fast and far so that all men may know the Brotherhood of Man."

"To THE NORTH—From the Northlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood."
"Today I send you back to your homelands across the great North Seas as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World."
"I bid you farewell."

"TO THE SOUTH—From the Southland you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood."
"Today I send you back to your homes under the Southern Cross as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World."
"I bid you farewell."

"TO THE WEST—From the Westlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood."
"Today I send you back to your homes in the Great Westlands to the Pacific and beyond as my Ambassadors of Peace and Fellowship among the Nations of the World."
"I bid you farewell."

"TO THE EAST—From the Eastlands you came at the call of my horn to this great gathering of Fellowship and Brotherhood."
"Today I send you back to your homes under the Starry Skies and Burning Suns to your people of the thousand years, bearing my symbol of Peace and Fellowship to the Nations of the Earth, pledging you to keep my trust.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

"I bid you farewell."
Burying the Hatchet - BP Closing Address at the 3rd World Jamboree, Arrowe Park, 12 August 1929

„If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!“

—  Robert Baden-Powell

The Scouter (November 1928); Reprinted in Footsteps of the Founder (1987)

„It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell, kniha Aids to Scoutmastership

Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

„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

How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)

„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

„I have gone home (or "Going home") — the Boy Scout trail sign "☉" on his tombstone in a tiny cemetery of Nyeri, Kenya.“

—  Robert Baden-Powell