C. F. Powell Quotes
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.
Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.
A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
