Become a Lion!
| Membership is through invitation by a
local Lions club. To learn more or to be
considered for membership, please
consult the
membership pages at Lions Club
International web site or contact
our
membership director. Or, if you
know one of our members, talk
with him or her about our club and the
privileges and responsibilities of
members. Below, we have inserted the
Lions Purposes and Code of Ethics to
give you a sense of what it means to be
a Lion. Please also check out the
news and
events pages
on this web site to learn more about our
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Lions International Purposes
- To Create and
foster a spirit of
understanding among the
peoples of the world.
- To Promote the
principles 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 matters 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.
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 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, as
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 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.
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