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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 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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