Eagle Scout Quotes:

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

- Lloyd Bentsen

topic: Government, Eagles, Careers, Scouting, Handy

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

- Frederick Reines

topic: Leadership, Boys, Eagles, Leadership Roles, Boy Scout

Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and has earned the Duty of God Award and is an Eagle Scout. Give me a young man who is a Seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me such a young man, and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life.

- Ezra Taft Benson

topic: Book, Men, Awards, Priesthood, Eagle Scout

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

- Daniel Carter Beard

topic: Boys, Men, He Man, Cub Scout, Boy Scout

The Boy Scouts of America stands for a set of principles. These principles have a lot of staying power. The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass. They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain. The principles of Scouting give you a sense of what's important. I feel I owe the Boy Scouts a great deal, both personally and professionally.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Boys, America, Giving, Staying Power, Scouting

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

- George Meyer

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Good Grades, Grades In School, Eagle Scout

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

- Wes Anderson

topic: Eagles, Play, Guy, Plane Crashes, Eagle Scout

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

- Michael Moore

topic: Eagles, Mad, Towns, Eagle Scout

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

- Rick Perry

source: Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

topic: School, Awards, Texas, Eagle Scout

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

- Frank Bruno

topic: Congratulations, Eagles, Letters, Eagle Scout