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Please enjoy these encouraging quotes by Robert Baden-Powell.
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational
Correcting bad habits cannot be done
by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Most people are more skilled at begging God than at thanking God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Affirmation:
All people are my heart-felt brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
- Steve Jobs
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...
Forgive them anyway.
- Kent Keith
(often attributed to Mother Teresa, who kept a copy
on the wall of her orphanage)
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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