Rovering to Success is a life-guide book written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell and published in two editions from June 1922 as a handbook for The Boy Scouts Association's Rovers program which had been launched in November 1919.

[3] The book sets out a philosophy for living in the adult world rather than being an instructional handbook.

It is written in the style of advice from a father or uncle[4] and it has been suggested that it was partly intended for future reading by Baden-Powell's son, Peter, who was nine years old when it was published.

[5] The theme of the book is taken from the popular 19th-century song; “Never sit down with a tear or a frown, but paddle your own canoe”,[6] which was written by the American poet Sarah T. Bolton in 1850 but is not attributed.

The chapters are: Baden-Powell wrote the manuscript in 1921 and his wife, Olave, typed it in November 1921[10] The book was published by Herbert Jenkins in June 1922.