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 hose 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.