Zeta Tau Alpha Creed

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To realize that

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Within our grasp, in Zeta Tau Alpha, lies the opportunity to learn those things which will ever enrich & ennoble our lives

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To be true to ourselves,

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To those within & without our circle

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To think

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In terms of all mankind & our service in the world

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To be steadfast, strong, and clean of heart and mind,

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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

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To find satisfaction in being,

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Rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit

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To prepare for service & learn the nobility of serving,

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Thereby earning the right to be served

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To seek understanding

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That we may gain true wisdom

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To look

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For the good in everyone

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To see beauty,

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With its enriching influence

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To be humble in success,

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And without bitterness in defeat

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To have the welfare & harmony of the fraternity at heart,

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Striving ever to make our lives a symphony of high ideals, devotion to the Right, the Good, and the True, without a discordant note

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Remembering always that the

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Foundation percept of Zeta Tau Alpha was love, "the greatest of all things."

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Written by

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Shirley Kreasan Strout

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Adopted by

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1928 ZTA Convention