Lions Code
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 such doubt against myself.
To hold friendship as an ends 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 obligation as a citizen of 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 criticisms and liberal with my praise; to build up
and not destroy.