The purpose of Zeta Tau Alpha is the intensifying of friendship, the fostering of a spirit of love, the creating of such sentiments, the performing of such deeds, and the moulding of such opinions as will be conducive to the building up of a purer and nobler womanhood in the world. Zeta Tau Alpha is the third largest member in the National Panhellenic Conference. There are 218,000 initiated member
s, 161 collegiate chapters, and 235 alumnae chapters. "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 find satisfaction in being, rather than seeming, thus strengthening in us the higher qualities of the spirit...remembering always that the foundation precept of Zeta Tau Alpha was Love, 'the greatest of all things.'"
- Shirley Kreasan Strout, adopted by the 1928 ZTA Convention
