Lions
International Objects
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To Create
and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
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To Promote
the principle of good government and good citizenship.
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To Take
an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the
community.
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To Unite
the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual
understanding.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whenever
a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards
others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
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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.
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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.
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To Aid
others by giving my
sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the
needy.
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To Be Careful
with my criticism and
liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.
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