Lionism -
Lions International 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. |
Lions International Purposes
- 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 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.