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
  • Back

• 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

• I am sure that university life would be better, both intellectually and morally, if most university students had temporary childless marriages. This would afford a solution to the sexual urge neither restless nor surreptitious, neither mercenary nor casual, and of such a nature that it need not take up time which ought to be given to work.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • Real
  • Challenge

• I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Time
  • Real
  • Daughter

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • People
  • Innocent

• 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