Never give an order that can be understood; always give orders that cannot be MISunderstood.
--General MacArthur

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot
of that comes from bad judgment.

Some think that happiness comes from getting, others know that it comes from giving.
--Baden Powell

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
-- Chinese Proverb

Dare to think, dare to act
-- Unknown

What more can you do?
I will do more than belong ... I will participate.
I will do more than care ... I will help.
I will do more than believe ... I will trust.
I will do more than dream ... I will work.
I will do more than teach ... I will inspire.
I will do more than earn ... I will enrich.
I will do more than give ... I will serve.
I will do more than live ... I will grow.
I will do more than be friendly ... I will be a friend.
I will do more than talk ... I will listen.
I will do more.
-- Unknown

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Distant water won't help to put out a fire close at hand.

The best informed people are those with acute observation and who are inquisitive to be continually asking "Why?''
--Waite Phillips

No person is entirely bad or entirely good. Therefore learn to forgive yourself for error the same as you should forgive others.
--Waite Phillips

The words "perseverance'' and stubbornness'' are not synonymous but it is distressing to observe that many people do not recognize the difference.
--Waite Phillips

No one should boast of being honest, dependable, courteous, and considerate for those are fundamental qualities essential to good character that everyone ought to develop and use.
--Waite Phillips

Patience is the Companion of Wisdom.
--St. Augustine

Live as to die tomorrow. Learn as to live forever.
--Isadore of Seville

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will look sourly upon; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
--William Makepeace Thackeray

Expose yourself to the possibility of doing something remarkable.
--C. Cunningham

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer
--Albert Camus

When I go quiet I stop hearing myself and start hearing the world outside me. Then, I hear something very great.
--anonymous

The best way out is always through.
--Robert Frost

A man can fail many times but he isn't a total failure until he begins to blame someone else for his own deficiencies.

We should all realize that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every position a duty, and that the most effective sermon is expressed in deeds instead of words.

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.

To become competent in governing others we must first learn to govern ourselves.

The trouble with many of us is that we would rather be ruined by flattery and praise than saved by honest criticism.
--Waite Phillips, from Waite Phillip's Epigrams

Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished without the will to start, the enthusiasm to continue and, regardless of temporary obstacles, the persistence to complete.
--Waite Phillips, from Waite Phillip's Epigrams

Somehow I can't believe there are many heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way. Have confidence in your ability to do it right. And work hard to do the best possible job.
--Walt Disney

The World is round and the place which may seem like the end may only be the beginning.
--Ivy Barker Priest

All that glitters is not gold. All who wander are not lost.
--William Shakespeare

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
--A. Lincoln

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
--Indian Proverb.S

Those who know do not talk.
Those who talk do not know.

An overcrowded chicken farm produce fewer eggs.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Sow much, reap much; sow little, reap little.

Thinking ahead is 90 percent of thinking.
-- Bill Dalton

The hardest thing for any sufferer to accept is that his suffering excuses him from very little and never has enough currency to restore him.
-- Shelby Steele

There is no slave who is not descended from a king, and no king who is not descended from a slave.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe..
-- Abraham Lincoln

80% of success is in just showing up.
-- Dustin Hoffman

Go outdoors and get rid of nerves.
-- Shelby Steele

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there areconsequences.
-- R. G. Ingersoll

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
-- Wallace Sayre

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
-- Lu Hsun, My Old Home

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.
-- Mark Twain

Do what you can with what you have where you are.
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin

The ends do not justify the means. Rather, the means become the end.

Attitude is everything.

It is usually easier to get forgiveness than permission.

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man.
-- Mario Puzo, The Godfather

Those results showed estimable young men, able to read and write, well-behaved and amenable to discipline, and easily made into smart-looking parade soldiers-but without individuality or strength of character, utterly without resourcefulness, initiative or the guts for adventure.
-- Lord Robert Baden-Powell, commenting on the results of average school education

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
-- Isaac Disraeli

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
-- Pearl S. Buck

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
-- Johann von Schiller

The probability of a man being right is directly proportional to the vigor with which others are trying to prove him wrong.

A paltry man, and poor of mind is he who mocks at all things.
-- Norse proverb

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
-- Samurai maxim

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.
-- Nicolo Machiavelli

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in avery narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr

Formal education will earn a living. Self-education will make a fortune.

Think in shades of grey. Act in black and white.

Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way-that is not easy.
-- Aristotle

The laborer works with his hands. The craftsman works with his hands and his head. The artist works with his hands, his head and his heart.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed indoing what is necessary.
-- Winston Churchill

You don’t manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
-- Grace Murray Hooper

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein

Injustice which exists among millions of people across thousands of square miles of territory is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.
-- Richard Wright, Native Son

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin

He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the people want is creating a ficticious demand for lower standards, which he will then satisfy.
-- Lord Reith, first Chairman of the BBC

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins

If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
-- Sir Isaac

To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert

A Scouter's Prayer:
"Build me a Scout, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory... Build me a Scout whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a Scout who himself is the foundation stone of knowledge...

Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail...

Build me a Scout whose heart will be clear, whose goals will be high. A Scout who will master himself before he seeks to master others, one who will march into the future, yet never forget the past...

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.

If we send the scouts home clean, we haven't done our jobs.

Our ideals are like the stars. We can never reach them, but we chart our course by them.
-- Montaigne

If you don't see what you want, make it.

One must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he is ever to learn to choose right.
-- Josiah C. Wedgewood