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Lions Club International Mission Statement, Objectives,
and Code of Ethics
MISSION STATEMENT
To create and
foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian
needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement
and international cooperation..
OBJECTIVES
- 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.
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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