To Organize, charter and supervise service clubs to
be known as Lions clubs.
To Coordinate the activities and standardize the administration
of Lions clubs.
To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among
the peoples of the world.
To Promote the principles 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 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 to 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, and 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.
