Rotary Ideals - July 30, 2007

ROTARY IDEALS

Rotary – the world’s first service organization – is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Here are some words and wisdom of Paul Harris, founder of Rotary International.

…about Tolerance:

“Friendship was the foundation rock on which Rotary was built and tolerance is the element which holds it together. There is enough atomic energy in every Rotary Club to blow it into a thousand bits were it not for the spirit of tolerance.”

…from a message to the Rotary Club of Buffalo in 1922

“Rotary has succeeded because in Rotary the standing of a man depends upon his deeds, not his creeds; and because its course leads toward the brightest and most alluring human objectives: the brotherhood of man.”

…from The Rotarian magazine in February, 1916

“The rise and fall of civilization will depend upon the thoughtfulness or the thoughtlessness of men. The greatest thing that can happen to man or nation is to stimulate the individual or the national thoughtfulness.”

…from The Rotarian magazine, September 1912

“The importance of placing and maintaining Rotary standards and ideals aloft cannot be overestimated. The star of hope in the Rotary ethical firmament must be high. It is hardly possible for it to be too high. May it be high enough so that there will always be something to strive for.”

…from The Rotarian magazine, February 1921

“The only way anyone can prove his love of his fellow man is through service to his fellow man.”

For more information about Rotary, check the website http://www.rotaryanguilla.org or speak to any local Rotarian. The Rotary Club of Anguilla meets every Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m. upstairs at the English Rose.