Motivating Story of Honesty

Motivating Story of Honesty

This is highly motivating moral story of Honesty of a boy who became the king because his seeds did not germinate.

There was once an honest king who was known for his honesty and kindness in peace as well as his ruthlessness at war.

But now the king was getting old and wanted to have some one to take over from him. All his children were killed in the wars a few years back. So the King called his ministers and told them go and gather a hundred of the best young men in his Kingdom.

The ministers got a hundred honest young men lined up in front of the palace the same day. Most of them were the sons of ministers and high ranking officials of the King’s own army.

The King came and gave ten seeds to each of the young men and sent them off telling them to come back exactly on the same date the next month with the plants they have grown with these seeds.

After one month, they were all back with the plants. Most them had all ten seeds grown to amazingly big plants, some had a plant or two less. At the end of the line, stood a young man, empty handed.

The King went to each plant and inspected them very carefully. Finally he reached the young man at the end of the row.

The man said, “Your Highness, I did try but for a reason not known to me the seeds I planted did not germinate.”

The King smiled at him, took the crown from his own head and placed it on the young man’s head and announced, “Behold, Here is your new King.”

All the ministers and the King’s Army Chiefs and their sons standing in the line, who had all the ten seeds growing into strong plants in the flower pots, could not understand it.

The King sensed this and made his last statement before he retired, “I wanted an honest man to rule my kingdom. I had boiled and killed the seeds before giving it to you all, so that they do not germinate at all.”

Moral of this Motivating Moral Story of Plant Seeds and Boy

“Honesty continues to be the best policy even today.”