Lions
International Purposes
* 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-minded 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 doubt
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.
