Lions
International Objects
- To
Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the
world.
- To
Promote the principle 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 main 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.
