Boy Scout quotes are sayings or phrases that highlight the principles and values associated with the Boy Scouts of America. These quotes often emphasize themes such as preparedness, loyalty, commitment, and service to others. They serve as a source of inspiration and guidance for Boy Scouts to live by and uphold the ideals of the organization. Many Boy Scout quotes focus on the importance of being trustworthy, helpful, kind, and respectful, as well as the significance of being prepared for any challenges that may arise.
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
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid. — Jack Benny
We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future. — Daniel Carter Beard
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself. — Robert Baden-Powell
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
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. — Blake Clark
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
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
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
The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky. — E. Urner Goodman
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. — Mickey Mantle
Short Boy Scout Quotes
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. — Kevin Garnett
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing." — Robert Baden-Powell
Hurrah Boys! Let's get these last few reds then head on back to camp. Hurrah! — George Armstrong Custer
Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel! — Winfield Scott
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. — James Naismith
The bold adventurer succeeds the best. — Ovid
Boy Scout Image Quotes
Boy that's a job I want in my next life. I want to come back and be a cloud and just float around and have a good time all the time.
Boy Scouts Of America Quotes
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct. — Baden Powell de Aquino
With the country moving toward inclusion, the leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have instead sent a message to young people that only some of them are valued. They've chosen to teach division and intolerance. — Chad Griffin
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike. — Suzy Parker
The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next. — Jay Sekulow
Scoutmaster Quotes
He who Serves his fellows is, of all his fellows, greatest — E. Urner Goodman
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
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
Scout Quotes
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
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
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
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
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
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
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
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. — Juliette Gordon Low
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
Girl Scout Quotes
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers. — 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
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
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
Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together. — Juliette Gordon Low
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
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
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
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope. — 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
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
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
Scouting contributes to a boy's preparation to hold the priesthood of God. Scout leaders have a sacred responsibility. They help boys learn Scouting principles that also help them live the gospel. We thank each leader as they foster faith in Christ and prepare boys to make temple covenants and become a missionary, husband, and father. — Rosemary M. Wixom
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
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
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. — Peter Agre
I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook. — George Carlin
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. — Stanley Crouch
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case. — Paul Weyrich
Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages. — Boy George
I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it. — Giancarlo Esposito
I still remember the entire Boy Scout motto. I don't remember the serial number of my gun in the army. I don't remember the number of my locker in school. But I remember that Boy Scout code. — Tommy Lasorda
We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end. — Tom Petty
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. — Baden Powell de Aquino
A boy is not a sitting-down animal. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world. — Baden Powell de Aquino
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? — Baden Powell de Aquino
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. — Tahir Shah
The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life. — John C. Maxwell
Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook — George Carlin
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover. — Robert Baden-Powell
...she yanked open her shoulder bag and pulled out a stake. Boy Scouts and vampire slayers should always be prepared. — Christopher Golden
I guess maybe the only time I met George Wallace was when - at a boy scout meeting in Montgomery, and he met 10 or 15 of us from different areas. I'm not sure why I was there. — Jeff Sessions
I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it. — George Carlin
"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath. — Ezra Taft Benson
In Conclusion
In these quotes, Boy Scouts are encouraged to be honest, trustworthy, and reliable in all aspects of their lives. They promote the importance of being helpful and supportive to others, as well as demonstrating kindness and respect towards everyone they encounter. Boy Scout quotes remind Scouts to always be prepared for any situation and to have the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate through life's obstacles. These quotes serve as valuable reminders for Boy Scouts to live their lives with integrity, courage, and a commitment to making a positive difference in their communities and the world.
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