Lions Club Objectives

LIONS of Florida
District 35-L

District Governor
Michael C. Mason, DG

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LIONS Club
Mission Statement, Objectives and Code of Ethics

LIONS Club Mission Statement

"To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary service through community involvement and international cooperation."

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LIONS Club Objectives

TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.

TO PROMOTE the principle 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 maters 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.

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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 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 my fellow men, to resolve each 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 bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give them my un-swerving, 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 weak, and my substance to the needy.

TO BE careful with my criticism and liberal with my praises; to build up and not destroy.