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Honesty Is the Best Policy
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
Honesty, the quality of being honest, is a value which can be defined in multiple ways. In the context of human communication, people are generally said to be honest when they tell the truth to the best of their knowledge and do not hide what they know or think. Apart from being truthful, honesty is also generally thought to involve abstaining from unfair behavior, such as stealing or cheating on a test. It is the quality to tell the truth when it is not easy to tell.
I’d like to tell you a little story to illustrate my point.
Once a General Manager wanted to test his people about their values of life. He gave each one of them a pouch which contained a seed. He asked them to plant it in a pot and return after 3 months and best plants would be suitably rewarded.
After 3 months, there were hundreds of pots with beautiful and variety of flowers except one pot in which there was no plant! The owner was standing quietly and seemingly ashamed of himself!
The general manager called the man on stage who was feeling ashamed and asked him what happened and he told him that he planted the seed - but nothing happened! The general manager declared him the winner! Everyone was shocked
GM revealed that he had given boiled seeds to everyone which couldn’t germinate. Everybody except this man has cheated by changing the seed!

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to not to do what you would undo if caught. So friends, be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
If you lose your honor you lose yourself.

Remember, an honest man is the noblest work of God.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom

Honest hearts produces produce honest actions

Honest is the best policy, if I lose my honor, I lose myself

No legacy is as rich as honesty

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

False and damaging utterance cannot destroy an honest man- when the flood recedes,

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