Baden Powell Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. — Baden Powell De Aquino

My dear fellow, what does it matter to me? Supposing I unravel the whole matter, you may be sure that Gregson, Lestrade, and Co. will pocket all the credit. That comes of being an unofficial personage." "But he begs you to help him." "Yes. He knows that I am his superior, and acknowledges it to me; but he would cut his tongue out before he would own it to any third person. However, — Arthur Conan Doyle

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. — William J. Clinton

The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn't know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the believer who secretly harbors intimate doubts about his belief and engages in transgressive fantasies. What we have today is a subject who presents himself as a tolerant hedonist dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, but whose unconscious is the site of prohibitions - what is repressed are not illicit desires or pleasures, but prohibitions themselves. "If God doesn't exist, then everything is prohibited" means that the more you perceive yourself as an atheist, the more your unconscious is dominated by prohibitions which sabotage your enjoyment. — Slavoj Zizek

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work. — Robert Baden-Powell

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given. — Mother Teresa

White women have a black belt in the fake smile. — Khaya Dlanga

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague. — Eula Biss

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still. — Robert Baden-Powell