 A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. |
| The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. |
| The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. |
| The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. |
| Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. |
| A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim. |
| When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. |
| If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. |
| To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. |
| An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. |
| Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader. |
| A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. |
| Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. |
| We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. |
| The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. |
| The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. |
| See things from the boy's point of view. |
| Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. |
| Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. |
