About Guiding
The Promise and Law
What is the Promise and Law?
The Guide Promise and The Guide Law form the principles of Guiding. A Guide makes her promise at a special Unit ceremony, where she receives her Promise Badge which is worn on her uniform.
The Guide Promise
Every Girl and adult that is a member of Guiding throughout the world makes a Promise. The words may be slightly different from country to country but the spirit and meaning of the words are the same wherever Guiding exists. The Australian Promise is:
I promise that I will do my best:
to do my duty to God, to serve the Queen and my country;
to help other people; and
to keep the Guide Law.
The Guide Law
Guides also abide by a set of laws that provide a framework and philosophy for living. The Australian Guide Law is:
- A Guide is loyal and can be trusted.
- A Guide is helpful.
- A Guide is polite and considerate.
- A Guide is friendly and a sister to all Guides.
- A Guide is kind to animals and respects all living things.
- A Guide is obedient.
- A Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties.
- A Guide makes good use of her time.
- A Guide takes care of her own possessions and those of other people.
- A Guide is self-controlled in all she thinks, says and does.