Frases de Robert Baden-Powell

“La verdadera manera de obtener la felicidad, es haciendo felices a los demás.”

“Ved siempre el lado bueno de las cosas y no el malo.”

“La felicidad no se consigue sentándose a esperarla.”

“Si la vida fuera siempre fácil, sería insípida.”

“Un scout debe hacer una buena acción a los demás por cortesía y buena voluntad sin aceptar recompensa.”

“Trata de dejar a este mundo en mejores condiciones de como lo encontraste.”

“El scout deja el mundo mejor de como lo encontró.”

“Las ligas y los tratados están bien entre los políticos. Pero no pueden producir la paz, a menos que la gente misma sea quien la desee. Nosotros tratamos de imbuir en la próxima generación el espóritu de amistad, camaradería y amistad, que es la verdadera fase para la paz del mundo.”

“Ningún hombre puede ser llamado educado, si no tiene una buena voluntad, un deseo y una capacidad entrenada para hacer su parte en el trabajo del mundo.”

“El hombre rico tiene sus limitaciones. Quizás tenga dos o tres casas y cada una de ellas con una docena de cuartos, pero él sólo podrá ocupar uno de éstos por turno ya que solamente tiene un cuerpo.
No es mejor en este sentido que el más pobre de los pobres. Podrá ver y admirar una puesta de sol, gozar de un día claro, o de una vista hermosa, pero el hombre pobre puede gozar de todo esto tan ampliamente como él. Si el hombre pobre tiene la sensatez de hacer en la vida dos cosas, podrá gozar de ella tanto como el millonario, y probablemente mejor.
La primera es:
No tomar las cosas con demasiada seriedad, pero sacar el mejor partido de lo que se tiene, y ver la vida como un juego y el mundo como un patio de juego. Shackleton ha dicho.'La vida es el más grande de los juegos; pero se corre el peligro de tratarla como un juego trivial... La meta principal es ganar por medio de la honradez y espléndidamente'.
La segunda es:
'Dejad que vuestras hazañas y vuestros pensamientos los dirija el Amor. Por Amor, con "A" mayúscula, no quiero decir enamorarse y todo aquello que se ampara vulgarmente con esa palabra. Lo que quiero decir es ese espíritu bondadoso que se hace patente al rendir un servicio a un semejante, cuando se es bondadoso y compasivo, cuando se demuestra gratitud hacia los demás por las bondades recibidas. Eso es buena voluntad y la buena voluntad es la voluntad de Dios'.”

“De la vida hay que aprender y de la muerte no hay que temer.”

“La felicidad se apoya en los pilares fundamentales: tomar la vida como un juego y prodigar amor a los demás.”

“Nuestro método de formación es educar desde dentro, en lugar de instruir desde fuera: ofrecer juegos y actividades que además resulten atractivos para el muchacho, lo eduquen seriamente en el aspecto moral, mental y físico.”

“La mejor forma de vencer las dificultades es atacándolas con una magnífica sonrisa.”

“Un hombre que nunca cometió errores, nunca hizo nada.”

“Es importante ser bueno, pero más importante es hacer el bien.”

“El montañismo fomenta la solidaridad y el espíritu de equipo, permitiendo a uno encontrarse con uno mismo.”

“Si tenéis el hábito de tomar las cosas con alegría, rara vez os encontraréis en circunstancias difíciles.”

“No es más limpio el que más limpia, sino el que menos ensucia.”

“El campamento es con mucho la mejor escuela para dar a los muchachos las cualidades de carácter.”

“Los hombres se convierten en caballeros por el contacto con la naturaleza.”

“Los scouts aprenden a fortalecerse al aire libre. Como los exploradores, acarrean sus propias cargas y 'Reman su propia canoa'.”

“No te conformes con el qué, sino que logra saber el porqué y el cómo.”

“Planifica tu trabajo y luego trabaja sobre tu plan.”

“De uno mismo depende ser dueño de sí mismo.”

“Dando una patada a la sílaba IM de la palabra IMPOSIBLE, cualquier persona estará segura de salir adelante.”

“"No me incumbe" es la pantalla tras la cual escudan los cobardes su falta de caballerosidad.”

“Una dificultad deja de serlo tan pronto como sonrías ante ella y la afrontes.”

“Un par de ojos bien entrenados son tan buenos como una docena de ojos inexpertos.”

“Por Roverismo no quiero decir vagabundear sin finalidad; lo que quiero decir es hallar uno su camino por senderos con objetivo definido y teniendo una idea de las dificultades y peligros que se va a encontrar en él.”

“Jamás se fracasa tratando de cumplir con el deber, y sí cuando se descuida.”

“La religión es una cosa bien sencilla: primero, amar y servir a Dios, segundo amar y servir al prójimo.”

“Mientras viváis en este mundo, tratad de hacer algo bueno que perdure después de vuestra muerte.”

“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”

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

“we aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.”

“The secret of getting successful work out of your trained men lies in one nutshell—in the clearness of the instructions they receive.”

“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.”

“If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb,; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.”

“Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.”

“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.”

“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.”

“Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it.

Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.”

“Be Prepared.”

“The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.”

“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.”

“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.”

“The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother…. He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.”

“I went and saw a lot of them at their daily practice of fencing with bamboo sticks and practicing jiu-jitsu to make themselves strong and active and good-tempered. I say good-tempered because it is very much like boxing; you have to take a good many hard knocks and take them smiling. If a fellow lost his temper at it, everybody would laugh at him and think him a fool. In jiu-jitsu they learn how to exercise and how to develop their muscles, how to catch hold of an enemy in many different ways so as to overpower him, how to throw him and, what is very important, how to fall easily if they get thrown themselves. I expect the Scouts of Japan, if they visit England later on, will be able to show us a thing or two in this line.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”