Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Boy Scouts does very well in making Scouts aware of character and integrity and … virtues and incorporate [them] in their lives so that they carry themselves as [those] kind of [people] for the rest of their [lives].

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

If you can help someone become a good young woman or a good young man, they have a better chance of surviving in this business.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

… democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium..fit for freedom’s athletes… Whatever we do not attain, we at any rate attain the experiences of the fight, the hardening of the strong campaign, and throb with currents of attempt at least.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

The Boy Scouts, of course, had an influence on me because I learned about service in the community.

JROTC students make a commitment to serve their communities at an early age, and they learn the discipline and habits to be future leaders.