A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. — Frederick Reines
Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters. — Robert Baden-Powell
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard
The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol. — Robert Baden-Powell
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. — Robert Baden-Powell
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time. — Knute Rockne
Short Scout Quotes
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. — Juliette Gordon Low
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope. — Robert Baden-Powell
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. — Kevin Garnett
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. — Juliette Gordon Low
You look like a talent scout for a cemetery. — Henny Youngman
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together. — Juliette Gordon Low
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents. — Harper Lee
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life. — Bear Grylls
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Scout Image Quotes
Important Scout Quotes
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly. — Nelson Mandela
Girl Scouts offered a wonderful group of girls where common concerns and interests could come together. We could learn, be challenged, and support one another. It was a very positive aspect of my life and played an important role in shaping who I am today. — Judy Woodruff
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. — Baden Powell de Aquino
I've been away from my two daughters at a very important time in their life.'I have missed most of Girl Scout cookie season.Last night Zahra, my youngest called me up and said :"Daddy how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?"' — Chris Rock
Scouting is important. You just want to know whom you are playing against and how to play them well within the team's defense. — Terry Rozier
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Boy Scout Quotes
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America should definitely allow gay adult leaders and I think it's really going to hold them back if they don't. — Bear Grylls
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. — Blake Clark
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership. — Michael Herr
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that? — Roy H. Williams
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems. — Stephen Ambrose
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier. — Bill O'Reilly
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light. — Baden Powell de Aquino
How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going. — Shaquille O'Neal
Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too. — Baden Powell de Aquino
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts. — Carl Barks
Girl Scout Quotes
My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. — Juliette Gordon Low
Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years. — Anna Maria Chavez
Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them. — Juliette Gordon Low
.. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet — Darynda Jones
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. — Maria Bartiromo
My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white. — Laura Bush
The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that. — Cathy Rigby
At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy. — Anna Maria Chavez
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I was not a Girl Scout, but I try to be very prepared. I triple-Spanx! — Octavia Spencer
Jem And Scout Quotes
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. — Harper Lee
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family. — Harper Lee
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee
There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. — Harper Lee
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout — Harper Lee
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. — Harper Lee
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. — Harper Lee
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. — Harper Lee
Scoutmaster Quotes
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest — E. Urner Goodman
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy. — Baden Powell de Aquino
The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. — Baden Powell de Aquino
The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice. — Robert Baden-Powell
I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as citizens endowed with the three H's namely, Health, Happiness and Helpfulness. The man or woman who succeeds in developing these three attributes has secured the main steps to success this Life. — Robert Baden-Powell
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? — Betty Friedan
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. — Robert Baden-Powell
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. — Lloyd Bentsen
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people. — Rene Magritte
Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation. — Mike Piazza
Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them. — Eoin Colfer
Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs. — Fawn M. Brodie
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains. — George Armstrong Custer
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. — Robert Baden-Powell
The wilderness is gone, the buckskin man is gone, the painted Indian has hit the trail over the Great Divide, the hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood are now but a legend in history, and we must depend upon the Boy Scout movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard
God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest. — Vance Havner
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract. — Red Smith
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his pre-eminence in the field concerned, and all pointing attention to his power to deal in the spiritual field with human souls as these mortal counterparts deal in their temporal pursuits. — Bruce R. McConkie
All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged. — Quinn Cummings
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for. — Roy Clark
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school. — Amy Sedaris
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of scout quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about scout to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of scout quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
