Let me always be open minded, that I may recognize good for Altrusa wherever it may be.  Let me be ready always to put aside my personal opinions for the greater good of the greater number.  Let me see principles and not personalities, and discerning them, let me serve them wholeheartedly through every cloud of doubt and discouragement.

Let me have faith still that the voice of the majority is the voice of good, and let me lend myself sincerely to the working out of what the majority chooses.  Knowing that the organization is but the individual multiplied by many and that the organization reflects not only the constructive good, but the mistaken ideas, the short-sightedness, the failures of the individual, let me still adhere to the will of the majority, knowing that time will reveal the better way and lead our footsteps aright if we tread with purer motives and unselfish hearts.

Let me be conscious of the shortcomings, the mistakes, the failures of myself and my associates only that I may learn to correct them, and let me rather see with uplifted face and stalwart soul the unblemished beauty, the high ideal of Altrusa, which exists upon the earth to uplift women to higher things, to make real in business and in our daily lives the things of the spirit.

Let me be patient in defeat and humble in success.  Let me seek not for rewards, for appreciation, or even for understanding, but let me seek rather to do the work that lies before me, and to find in the right doing of the work the joy and satisfaction that passes understanding, until I too, may say, “I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.”

 Mamie L. Bass