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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. |
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| 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 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. |
