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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 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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