Author

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

From Robert Powell

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.

From Robert Powell

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

From Robert Powell

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

From Robert Powell

There is no teaching to compare with example.

From Robert Powell

A boy is naturally full of humor.

From Robert Powell

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

From Robert Powell

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

From Robert Powell

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

From Robert Powell

Robert Powell

Notable Quotes

Authors with Similar Views

Robert Baden-Powell

Bear Grylls

Bernard Sumner

Ezra Taft Benson

Gary Kovacs

Authors with Opposing Views

Gary Kovacs

Annie Lennox

Craig Brown

Denis Waitley

Dhanush