LIONS CLUBS PURPOSES
To ORGANISE, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions Clubs.
To COORDINATE the activities and standardize the administration of Lions Clubs.
To CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
To PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.
To TAKE an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
To UNITE the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
To PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest, provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
To ENCOURAGE service-mionded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.
LIONS CODE OF ETHICS
TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application
to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as
my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my
own
self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because
of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary
to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers
and true
to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position
or action towards others, to resolve such doubts against
myself.
TO HOLD friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that
true friendship exists not on account of the service
performed by one another, but
that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service
in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to
my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them
my
unswerving loyalty
in word,
act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor
and means.
TO AID others by giving my sympathy to those in distress,
my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with
my praise; to build up and not destroy.
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