Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Robert Baden-Powell

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• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Game
  • Cool

• I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Morning

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm always up for going back to the stage.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Stage
  • Going

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Me

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Mission
  • Craftsmanship

• I love feminine soft shades for summers - I like pastels and bright hues, too. I like summer dresses and tank tops; I think they never go out of style. As much as I'm happy with Western wear for red carpet and social dos, I also like Indian ethnic wear for special occasions.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Style

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Better

• Where there is love there is life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Films

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands. You'd love them to come to every big dance and every big game, but sometimes that's not possible.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Change
  • Fall

• The principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangements for financing the Health Service.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Health
  • Service

• Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

  

  Dixie Carter
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Learning

• Cooking puts me at ease; it gives me control over what's happening, and I know that the finished product is gonna be good, so I'm gonna be satisfied. That's kind of how I keep myself grounded.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Good
  • Control
  • Cooking

• My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

  

  John Conyers
  • She
  • Friends
  • Husband

• As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real