Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Robert Baden-Powell

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Death
  • Energy
  • Day

• People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Why
  • Diversity

• Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Nothing

• I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Sympathy

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Dream
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Up
  • Question
  • Better

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Help
  • Learning
  • Learn

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Personality

• Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Art

• It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Good

• We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Earth
  • Concentration
  • Lawyers

• Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • People
  • Business
  • Game

• The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
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