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The scouts' motto is founded on my initials, it is: be prepared, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.

— Robert Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys (1908)

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941)

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

Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.

How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)

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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