To create and foster a spirit of understanding
among all people for humanitarian needs
by providing voluntary services through
community involvement and international cooperation.
Lions Clubs International
PURPOSES
TO CREATE and foster a
spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
TO PROMOTE the principals
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.
* The Lions Clubs International Purposes outline the
aims and goals of the Lions organization. It is up to the
individual club to implement the purposes.
Lions Clubs International
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.
* The Code of Ethics is a guideline for the personal values that
each member should exemplify.
