Honesty is a virtue. Therefore honesty truly is the best policy. Honesty is the foundation of any on track well-working relationship. Regardless of the relationship whether it's with parents,friends,teachers honesty is really important. Neither of the relationships mentioned earlier would be successful without trust, loyalty, that is gained from being honest. If you are dishonest you will find yourself in situations where you will have to tell one or two lies to avoid getting in trouble. I believe honesty is the best policy because, no matter how good you are at telling lies, the truth will always comes out sooner or later. People who are honest, are trusted and highly respected due to the fact that they are always known to stand by their
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It helps an individual to focus one's life in correct path. An honest person has nothing to hide nothing to worry since his conscious is clear. Most of the times the honesty brings hidden benefits. The children's story about the "Lumberjack" is a fine demonstration of an example. In this story while cutting a tree branch the lumberjack accidently drops the axe in to the river. The man jumps into the river hoping to find the axe, but with shattered hopes the man gets to the river bank. At this moment the god of trees "The god Mercury" appears in front of the lumberjack. Lumberjack relates what happened to him to the god and god goes under water after listening to the man and comes back with a silver ax asking whether it was the axe. The lumberjack was an honest man. Therefore he told the truth and the god disappeared again in to the water and this time brought a golden axe. Still the lumberjack was honest and denied the ownership for the golden axe. For the final time the god disappears under water and this time brings the exact axe which the lumberjack accidently dropped. The honest man said "yes, that is my axe. Thank you very much for bringing it back ".The god was pleased with the honesty of the man and god was kind enough to bless the man with all three axes as a gift. Even though this is a folklore the advice that could be taken is far more greater than we realize and goes beyond age
It helps an individual to focus one's life in correct path. An honest person has nothing to hide nothing to worry since his conscious is clear. Most of the times the honesty brings hidden benefits. The children's story about the "Lumberjack" is a fine demonstration of an example. In this story while cutting a tree branch the lumberjack accidently drops the axe in to the river. The man jumps into the river hoping to find the axe, but with shattered hopes the man gets to the river bank. At this moment the god of trees "The god Mercury" appears in front of the lumberjack. Lumberjack relates what happened to him to the god and god goes under water after listening to the man and comes back with a silver ax asking whether it was the axe. The lumberjack was an honest man. Therefore he told the truth and the god disappeared again in to the water and this time brought a golden axe. Still the lumberjack was honest and denied the ownership for the golden axe. For the final time the god disappears under water and this time brings the exact axe which the lumberjack accidently dropped. The honest man said "yes, that is my axe. Thank you very much for bringing it back ".The god was pleased with the honesty of the man and god was kind enough to bless the man with all three axes as a gift. Even though this is a folklore the advice that could be taken is far more greater than we realize and goes beyond age