Sorority and Fraternity Creeds
 

Alpha Sigma Tau's Creed

As a member of Alpha Sigma Tau,
I believe in the permanence and loveliness of it's ideals
I believe in the values of friendship and fidelity to purpose
I believe in fulfillment of self and will strive to contribute my share to the progress of mankind
I believe in cultivating beauty of spirit and graciousness of living in all my contacts with others
I believe that faithfulness to these ideals will help me to live joyously and vailiantly.


:D :D :D

The Alpha Gamma Delta Purpose
 

To gain understanding that wisdom may be vouchsafed to me.

To develop and prize health and vigor of body.

To cultivate acquaintance with many whom I meet.

To cherish Friendships with but a chosen Few and to study the perfecting of those Friendships.


To welcome the opportunity of contributing to the world's work in the community where I am placed because of the joy of service thereby bestowed and the talent of leadership multiplied.

To honor my home, my country, my religious faith.

To hold truth inviolable, sincerity essential, kindness invaluable.

To covet beauty in environment, manner, word and thought.

To possess high ideals and to attain somewhat unto them.

This shall be my PURPOSE, that those who know me may esteem ALPHA GAMMA DELTA for her attainments, revere her for her purposes and love her for her womanhood.

The Creed of Tau Kappa Epsilon

To Believe in love and loyalty to my College, my Fraternity, my Country, and my God;

To Believe in the worthiness and dignity of my fellow man, and judge him solely upon his personal worth and character;

To Believe with fidelity in the traditions and ideals of my Fraternity, and upon my sacred honor, to uphold them;

To Believe in the constant search for truth, and through it, to seek the goal of wisdom;

To Believe in the life based upon integrity, justice, sincerity, patience, moderation, culture, and challenge in order to serve as a responsible, mature member of society;

To Believe in the cardinal principles of Love, Charity, and Esteem and to use them to guide my life;

To Believe in my Fraternity as a brotherhood of gentlemen in perpetual quest of excellence as a way of life.

The Creed of Phi Mu


To lend to those less fortunate a helping hand.
To think of God as a protector and guide of us all.
To keep forever sacred the memory of those we have loved and lost.
To be to others what we would they would be to us.
To keep our lives gentle, merciful and just,
Thus being true to the womanhood of love.

To walk in the way of honor, guarding the purity of our thoughts and deeds.
Being steadfast in every duty small or large.
Believing that our given word is binding.
Striving to esteem the inner man above culture, wealth or pedigree.
Being honorable, courteous, tender,
Thus being true to the womanhood of honor.

To serve in the light of truth avoiding egotism, narrowness, and scorn.
To give freely of our sympathies.
To reverence God as our Maker, striving to serve Him in all things.
To minister to the needy and unfortunate.
To practice day by day love, honor, truth.
Thus keeping true to the meaning, spirit and reality of Phi Mu.

The Creed of Alpha Delta Pi

I believe in Alpha Delta Pi. I believe that my sorority is more than a ritual or a symbol; that it is a way of life. I believe that the principles established by our founders in 1851 are enduring attributes, exemplifying the highest ideals of Christian womanhood. I believe that our motto, "We Live for Each Other," expresses the true spirit of fraternity; and that by living this motto my life will be enriched by true friendships and by unselfish service to mankind. I believe that the privilege of membership in Alpha Delta Pi brings the responsibility to do my best in whatever I undertake, always remembering that leadership requires confidence tempered with humility and courage blended with tolerance.

I believe that I must strive to become a well-balanced person by following the dictates of the four points symbolized by our diamond-shaped badge: first, strengthening my own character and personality; second, watching my attitudes toward my fellow-beings; third, recognizing the value of high educational standards; and fourth, developing faith and loyalty.

I believe that these four guide-posts, guarded by the stars and friendly hands clasped in the Adelphean bonds of fellowship, will lead me to achieve a rich and useful life.

~ Caralee Strock Stanard

(I have this framed and prominently displayed in my bedroom as a reminder everyday of what I need to strive toward)

Delta Gamma's Purpose:

Delta Gamma offers to women of all ages a rich heritage based on principles of personal intergrity, personal responsibility and intellectual honesty. Our primary purpose is to foster high ideals of friendship, promote educational and cultural interests, create a true sense of social responsibility and develop the finest qualities of character.

The Symphony of Alpha Xi Delta
 

These things do we earnestly desire:

A clear vision of life, that with gracious and kindly hearts we may share both joy and sorrow, and bring into living reality the sisterhood of women.

An appreciation of real merit and worth, steadfastness of soul, that without bitterness or defeat we may encounter misfortune, and with humility meet success.

These things, o Lord, help us to instill within our hearts, that we may grow in courage and graciousness and peace.

I love the title of "The Symphony of Alpha Xi Delta":D

Sounds like a beautifiul song!

The purpose of Delta Delta Delta shall be to establish a perpetual bond of friendship among its members, to develop a stronger and more womanly character, to broaden the moral and intellectual life, and to assist its members in every possible way.

It shall also be the purpose of Delta Delta Delta to promote and develop mutually beneficial relationships between the Fraternity and the colleges and universities where the Fraternity has established chapters, to develop qualities of unselfish leadership among its members, and to encourage them to assume, with integrity and devotion to moral and democratic principles, the highest responsibilities of college women.


(i'm pretty sure that second part was added later...but maybe i'm wrong)

The Purpose of Sigma Kappa:

The purpose of Sigma Kappa Sorority is to unite its members in a bond of sincere friendship for the development of character and the promotion of social, literary, and intellectual culture to support and further the program and objectives of the colleges where its chapters are functioning; to strive for high standards of achievement-scholastically, socially, and spiritually; and to make a constructive contribution to the communities in which its collegiate and alumnae clubs are located by encouraging the exercise of the rights and obligations of good citizens and the support of worthwhile civic, social and philanthropic projects.

Fraternity Mission Statement
 

Alpha Phi Omega's mission statement:

To strengthen the presence of Alpha Phi Omega on college campuses and among its members
To support the spread of the Fraternity's principles and activities on college campuses and among its members
To provide opportunities for its members and college students to develop effective leadership skills
To promote fellowship among all people
To provide service to humanity
To further our acknowledged freedoms

And although the Jaycees are not a GLO, I wanted to share the Jaycee creed with everyone. :) Jaycees seemed like a very natural progression for me after APO and the creed kind of explains it...the principles are very similar.

WE BELIEVE...
That faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life;
That the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations;
That economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise;
That government should be of laws rather than of men;
That earth's great treasure lies in human personality;
And that service to humanity
is the best work of life.

There's a really good interpretation/explanation of the creed here: http://www.iljaycees.org/creed_interpreted.htm

THE CREED OF SIGMA CHI

I believe in fairness, decency, and good manners. I will endeavor to retain the spirit of youth. I will try to make my college, the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and my own chapter more honored by all men and women and more beloved and honestly respected by our own brothers. I say these words in all sincerity: That Sigma Chi has given me favor and distinction; that the bond of our fellowship is reciprocal; that I will endeavor to so build myself and so conduct myself that I will ever be a credit to our Fraternity.
- George Ade, Purdue 1887

The Creed of Theta Phi Alpha

Justice to each fellow man
Wisdom in each deed and plan
Loyalty to every friend
Faith that sorrow can transcend
Truth to God and truth to self
Honor valued over wealth
This is the Creed that in us lies
The Creed of loyal Theta Phis.

The white rose for its purity
The sapphire blue for loyalty
The compass for its needle sure
That holds our course firm and secure
The silver for a precious faith
That knows no end, not even death
This is the Creed that in us lies
The Creed of loyal Theta Phis.

The Purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha:

The purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha is to intensify friendship, promote happiness among its members, to perform such deeds, and to mould such opinions as will conduce to the building up of a purer and nobler womanhood in the world.


The Creed of Zeta Tau Alpha:

To realize that within our grasp, in Zeta Tau Alpha, lies the opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich and ennoble our lives; to be true to ourselves, to those within and without our circle; to think in terms of all mankind and our service in the world; to be steadfast, strong, and clean of heart and mind, remembering that since the thought is father to the deed, only that which we would have manifested in our experience should be entertained in thought; to find satisfaction in being, rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit; to prepare for service and learn the nobility of serving, thereby earning the right to be served; to seek understanding that we might gain true wisdom; to look for the good in everyone; to see beauty, with its enriching influence; to be humble in success, and without bitterness in defeat; to have the welfare and harmony of the Fraternity at heart, striving ever to make our lives a symphony of high ideals, devotion to the right, the good, and the true, without a discordant note; remembering always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha was love, “the greatest of all things.” -- Shirley Kreasan Strout

Chi Omega Symphony

To live constantly above snobbery of word or deed;
To place scholarship before social obligations and character before appearances;
To be, in the best sense, democratic rather than "exclusive" and lovable rather than "popular";
To work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that course which occassion and conscience demand;
To be womanly always;
To be discouraged never;
In a word, to be loyal under any and all circumstances to my Fraternity and her highest teachings and to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant note.

The Creed of Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity...


That all men are created free and equal.

That no society of men can flourish unless members ofthat society are endowed with the opportunities and privileges of freedom.

That freedom implies the elimination of prejudice.

That the elimination of prejudice means a better understanding 'twixt* men.

That it is incumbent upon me to fight for such freedom even with my life.

That it is incumbent upon me in my personal life to be devoted to the highest standards of honesty and justice.

That because my country is dedicated to the highest standards of freedom and justice for all men of all creeds I hereby pledge allegiance to my country, and to its national symbol.



["twixt" means between]

zeta psi mission
 

Zeta Psi strives to be the premier international men's fraternal organization dedicated to forging academic excellence and life-long bonds of brotherhood. Through active chapter participation and continuing alumni outreach, Zeta Psi members are committed to the development of leadership, character and intellect and to the service of their brothers, their communities and mankind.

Kappa Delta Purpose

The purpose of Kappa Delta Sorority is to promote true friendship among the college girls of our country by inculcating into their hearts and lives those principles of truth, of honor, of duty, without which there can be no true friendship.

Kappa Delta Object

The object of Kappa Delta Sorority is the formation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship and sisterly love among its members; the encouragement of literature and education; the promotion of social interest; and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.

Kappa Delta Creed

May We, Sisters in Kappa Delta, strive each day to seek more earnestly the honorable and beautiful things. May We each day through love of those within our circle, Learn to know and understand better those without our circle. May the diamond shield that guards our love find us each day Truer, Wiser, More Faithful, More Loving, and More Noble.

Kappa Delta Open Motto

Ta Kala Diokomen
Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful and highest.

Kappa Delta Mission Statement

Kappa Delta is a national organization of women committed to a two-fold purpose: to provide a secure, stabilizing environment for personal growth to its collegiate members, and to provide a lifelong association of friendship and enrichment to its alumnae members.

Kappa Delta provides experience in group living and offers the opportunity to learn leadership and interpersonal skills that equip members to assume positions of responsibility in the world of career, community and society.

Kappa Delta encourages academic achievement, respect for learning and development of organizational skills that prepare college women for attaining their goals in life.

Kappa Delta teaches the value of altruism, belief in human dignity and concern for fellow human beings - timeless principles adopted by the sorority's founders in 1897.

Kappa Delta looks to the past for its convictions, the present for its opportunities and the future for its dreams.

DaffyKD

To believe in the life of love,
To walk in the way of honor,
To serve in the light of truth,
This is the life, the way and the light of Sigma Nu,
This is the Creed of Our fraternity.

(That's the short creed, the long one is about a page and a half long).

The Mission of Tri Sigma
 

OUR REASON FOR BEING

The purposes for which this association is formed are:

To foster education, to maintain charity, to promote patriotism.
To encourage culture, to encourage high scholarship.
To assist in the building of character, to promote college loyalties,
To perpetuate friendships, to cement social ties within its membership.
And to foster the maintenance of college homes by chapters for their undergraduate members.

THE MISSION OF ALPHA SIGMA PHI FRATERNITY
To Create and to Perpetuate Brotherhood

Brotherhood is the development of lifelong human relationships based on respect, mutual love and support.

Alpha Sigma Phi provides opportunities for its members to experience Brotherhood through the creation and maintenance of Chapters.

By experiencing Brotherhood, the members of Alpha Sigma Phi grow stronger intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically and spiritually, thereby becoming more empowered to enrich society and to improve the quality of life.

The chaotic state of moral and ethical values within our society has prompted many of our members to urge Alpha Sigma Phi to expand and strengthen the Brotherhood experience. In addition, increasing numbers of men desiring membership have expressed their eagerness to experience Brotherhood.

In response, Alpha Sigma Phi will actively work to create the new chapters and to create an environment of respect, mutual love and support in each chapter. Further, in support of Our Reason for Being and our motto To Better The Man, Alpha Sigma Phi will provide programs and services that assist each member to:

• Pursue high scholarship.
• Seek a deeper awarness and understanding of self and others.
• Recognize the qualities that make self and others unique and
• needed.
• Demonstrate responsible leadership.
• Grow in relationship with the Supreme Being.
• Exemplify integrity, patriotism, and self-respect for the
• opinions, beliefs, and actions, cultures and principles of others.
• Serve others.
• Invite without prejudice men for membership.
• Possess self-confidence.
• Exercise autonomy.
• Demostrate behavior which exemplifies the Fraternity's Code of Conduct.

Alpha Sigma Phi will have succeeded when its members are successful in developing lifelong, meaningful relationships that enrich society and improve the quality of life.

CODE OF CONDUCT
[list=1][*]I will respect the dignity of all persons, and therefore, I will not physically, psychologically or sexually abuse another human being.[*]I will respect the rights of property both of others and my own, and therefore, I will not abuse private or community property.[*]I will be a financially responsible individual.[*]I will not use nor support the use of illegal drugs.[*]I will not abuse nor support the abuse of alcohol.[*]I acknowledge that a clean, safe and attractive environment is essential to both physical and mental health -- therefore I will do all in my power to see that the chapter is properly cleaned and maintained.[*]I will achieve academic excellence.[*]I will encourage and support my Brothers in pursuing the ideals of this Code of Conduct.[/list=1]

The Mission Statement of Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma is an organization of women, which seeks for every member throughout her life bonds of friendship, mutual support, opportunities for self-growth, respect for intellectual development, and an understanding of and an allegiance to positive ethical principles.

The following are not an official creed or symphony but are beautiful to us nonetheless.
Kappa is...The contentment of friendships, but never the complacency of the clique. The encouragement of individual development, instead of strict conformity to the group. The curiosity to learn and to achieve, not limited to the quest for grades nor to a special time of life. The joy of serving others without the smugness of the do-gooder. The pride in a great heritage of a sound organization, but never the self-satisfaction of the status quo. Finally, Kappa is the ability to build on yesterday while doing today as a preparation for tomorrow. – The History of Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, 1870-1930

A Kappa Symphony
Thou Kappa Kappa Gamma live each day in all our hearts
And in our lives play most noble sympathetic parts
The parts of sister, second mother, counsellor, true friend
Of love's ideal to which we raise our eyes until the end

Until the end. I think when passed beyond this little sphere
We still shall see thy joyous shining light forever clear
And hear in all the skies thy call of perfeft womanhood
So God may say "on earth and here thou art a lasting Good"

Phi Kappa Psi
 

The Creed of Alpha Phi

I believe in my Fraternity.

I believe in the friendships formed
in the springtime of my youth.

I believe in its high ideals
which lift me up beyond myself.

I believe in its earnest drive for good scholarship,
moral character, and genuine culture.

I believe in it as a shrine of
international sisterhood wherein
I may find love and loyalty,
sympathy and understanding inspiration
and opportunity.

I believe in it as a creator of good citizenship,
helping me to do my work well,
to live in harmony with others, and
to serve my country and to trust in God.

I believe in my Fraternity.
I believe in Alpha Phi.

- Annette Holt Hitchcock, Pi 1912

Purpose

The objectives of our Fraternity are the promotion of growth in character; unity of feeling, sisterly affection, and social communion among our members. In all that we do, we try to obey God’s principles of justice and right. We have banded ourselves together to improve our minds and hearts, and we seek to aid each other through a constant watchcare always given in love. We believe ourselves to be sincere searchers for truth.

We seek the highest ideal of womanhood, and we try to gain this ideal by cultivating not only the power and passion for seeking intellectual development but, also, the spirit of love and charity. And we who are thus united are under a solemn pledge to lend a helping hand to one another.

- Constitution of Alpha Phi International Fraternity, Incorporated, Article II

The Symphony of Alpha Chi Omega

To see beauty, even in the common things of life,
To shed the light of love and friendship round me,
To keep my life in tune with the world that I shall make no discords in the harmony of life,
To strike on the lyre of the universe only the notes of happiness, of joy, of peace,
To appreciate every little service rendered,
To see and appreciate all that is noble in another, be her bade what it may,
and to let my lyre send forth the cordsof love, unselfishness, sincerity.
This is to be my symphony

I love our symphony :)

Alpha Phi
 

Alpha Phi Creed

I believe in my Fraternity.

I believe in the friendships formed
in the springtime of my youth.

I believe in its high ideals
which lift me up beyond myself.

I believe in its earnest drive for good scholarship,
moral character, and genuine culture.

I believe in it as a shrine of
international sisterhood wherein
I may find love and loyalty,
sympathy and understanding inspiration
and opportunity.

I believe in it as a creator of good citizenship,
helping me to do my work well,
to live in harmony with others, and
to serve my country and to trust in God.

I believe in my Fraternity.
I believe in Alpha Phi.

Pi Beta Phi's mission:

The mission of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women is to promote friendship, develop women of intellect and integrity, cultivate leadership potential and enrich the lives of members and their communities.

Vision:

Pi Beta Phi Fraternity is committed to being recognized as a premier organization for women by providing lifelong enrichement to its members and contributing to the betterment of of society.

The Object of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia:

The Object of this Fraternity shall be for the development of the best and truest fraternal spirit; the mutual welfare and brotherhood of musical students; the advancement of music in America and a loyalty to the Alma Mater.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia does not have an official creed as such. However, the quote shown below is familiar to all Sinfonians -- learned by probationary members (pledges) and quoted by brothers. One might say that it is an unofficial creed or statement of our standards and goals. It came to us as the closing paragraph in a letter to the Brotherhood from Ossian E. Mills, "Father of Sinfonia" and Honorary Grand Supreme President for Life, in the 1912 FMA Annual. Many of us find it be a very meaningful standard.

This it is to be a man of the highest type. To be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

To fill my days with satisfying activity
To find dominant beauty in art, literature, nature and friendships
To know the peace and serenity of a divine faith
To love life and joyously live each day to its ultimate good
This is my creed in Alpha Sigma Alpha.

"This truth comes to us more and more, the longer we live, that in what field, or in what uniform, or with what aims we do our duty, matters very little; or even what our duty is, great or small, splendid or obscure, only to find our duty certainly and somewhere, somehow do it faithfully, makes us good, strong, happy and useful, and tunes our lives into some feeble echo of the life of God."

Learning the punctuation on that was a &^*(^&%

The Gamma Phi Beta Creed
 

Gamma Phi Beta from the past has given
A heritage that makes a fuller life.
Gamma Phi Beta in the present bids
Us strive for lasting values and ideals.
Gamma Phi Beta in the days to come
Will prove that fundamentals can endure.
Therefore we shall embody in our lives
The truths that make for finer womanhood.
Once more we pledge a loyalty that means
Adherence to all true and noble things;
A learning that enriches all our days
With magic gold that is forever ours;
A labor that each hour will glorify
The simple, common task, the common cause;
A love that will be strong and great enough
To encompass and pity all the world.

Theta Nu Xi
 

Mission Statement

To promote leadership,multiculturalism,and self improvement through academic excellence,involvement in and service to the campus and community,as well as being living examples of sisterhood across different races,cultures,religions,backgrounds,
and lifestyles.

To bind men together in a brotherhood based upon eternal and immutable principles, with a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity; to know no North, no South, no East, no West, but to know man as man, to teach that true men the world over should stand together and contend for supremacy of good over evil; to teach, not politics, but morals; to foster, not partisanship, but the recognition of true merit wherever found; to have no narrower limits within which to work together for the elevation of man than the outlines of the world: these were the thoughts and hopes uppermost in the minds of the founders of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.

Otis Allen Glazebrook, 1880

*bump* This is a great thread idea.