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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Scouting.
"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)
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
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
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
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
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
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.
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
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
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
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 are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
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
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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 rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
A great gift requires two people,
the giver and the receiver.
Think of a football pass -
skillfully catching the pass, the gift,
is fully as important, and difficult, as throwing it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
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
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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