Baden Powell de Aquino quotes:

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.

A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.

It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.

Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

We do not want to make Scout training too soft.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?

A boy on joining wants to begin Scouting right away.