Lions Club 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 own business it is not necessary to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my
client’s or customers and true to myself.
Whenever a doubt arises as to
the right or ethics of my position or action toward my fellow men, 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 my fellow men 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.