A story about honesty and success

The establishment of Yan Shu's reputation

Yan Shu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, is famous for his honesty. At the age of fourteen, he was recommended to the emperor and became a child prodigy. The emperor summoned him and asked him to take the exam at the same time with more than 1000 Jinshi. As a result, Yan Shu found that she had just practiced the exam ten days ago, so she truthfully reported to Zhenzong and asked to change other topics. Song Zhenzong appreciated Yan Shu's honesty very much and named him "fellow scholar". When Yan Shu takes office, the world is at peace. Therefore, Beijing officials, large and small, often go to the suburbs or hold various banquets in restaurants and teahouses in the city. Yan Shu was poor and had no money to go out to eat, drink and have fun, so she had to read and write articles with her brothers at home. One day, Zhenzong promoted Yan Shu as the official of the East Palace who assisted the prince in his studies. Ministers were surprised and didn't understand why Zhenzong made such a decision. Zhenzong said, "Recently, the ministers often play and have banquets. Only Yan Shu studies behind closed doors, so she is cautious in self-esteem and is the best candidate for the East Palace official. " Yan Shu thanked him and said, "I am actually a person who likes to play and eat, but my family is poor." If I had money, I would have taken part in the banquet tour. " These two things made Yan Shu establish prestige in front of ministers, and Song Zhenzong trusted him more.

2. A comparison between Washington and Nixon and Clinton?

Washington cut down his father's cherry tree with a small axe. When his father saw his beloved tree cut down, he was very angry and threatened to teach the tree cutter a lesson. Washington admitted his mistake in front of his angry father. Father was very moved and said that Washington's honesty is much more precious than all cherry trees. It was also President Nixon who was forced to resign because he lied in Watergate. Clinton was also impeached for lying in a disgraceful scandal. One was loved for his honesty, and the other two left a stain on political history for lying.

3. Comparison between "Building a Tree for Faith" and "Bonfire Party".

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin Shangyang presided over the political reform with the support of Qin Xiaogong. At that time, at a time of frequent wars and panic, in order to establish prestige and promote reform, Shang Yang ordered a 30-foot-long wood to be erected outside the south gate of the capital, and made a promise in public: whoever can move this wood to the north gate will be rewarded with twelve taels of silver. None of the onlookers believe that such an easy thing can get such a high reward, so no one is willing to try. So Shang Yang raised the reward to 50 gold. Under the four rewards, there must be brave people. Finally someone stepped forward and carried the wood to the north gate. Shang Yang immediately rewarded him with fifty gold. Shang Yang's move established prestige in the hearts of the people, and Shang Yang's next reform was quickly popularized in Qin State. The new law made the State of Qin stronger and eventually unified China.

It was also in the place where Shang Yang "established a tree as a letter" that a ridiculous farce of "playing a vassal in a bonfire" was staged 400 years ago.

There is a favorite princess in Zhou Youwang, whose name is Bos. In order to win her smile, Zhou Youwang ordered more than 20 beacon towers near the capital to light bonfires-bonfires are a signal of border warning, which can only be lit when foreign enemies invade and need to call the princes for help. As a result, as soon as the princes saw the bonfire, they led the soldiers to arrive in a hurry, realized that it was a trick set by the king to smile at his wife, and then left angrily. I finally smiled happily when I saw the usually prestigious princes at a loss. Five years later, another large-scale attack on Zhou, the bonfire of Youwang was rekindled, but the ministers were late-no one wanted to be fooled again. As a result, you Wang was forced to commit suicide and was praised and captured.

A "stand up and win the trust" promises 1000 yuan; An emperor didn't believe it and played the game of "wolf coming". As a result, the former succeeded in political reform and the country was strong; The latter, who brought shame on himself, died. It can be seen that "belief" plays a very important role in the rise and fall of a country.

4. Li Yu Ian recorded a story that he lost his life because he broke his promise.

A businessman in Jiyang sank while crossing the river. He grabbed a hemp pole and shouted for help. A fisherman heard the sound. The businessman quickly shouted: "I am the richest man in Jiyang. If you can save me, I will give you 100 two gold. " . After being rescued ashore, the businessman turned his face and denied people. He only gave the fisherman 10 two gold. The fisherman accused him of breaking his word and going back on his word. The rich man said, "You are a fisherman. I can't make much money in my life. Is it not enough to suddenly get twelve taels of gold? " My husband must be very unhappy. Unexpectedly, the rich man capsized in the same place again. Someone tried to save him, and the person he cheated said, "He is a man of his word!" " "So the merchant drowned. It is accidental that the businessman capsized twice and met the same husband, but it is expected that the businessman will not be rewarded. Because if a person does not keep his word, he will lose the trust of others. So, once he is in trouble, no one wants to rescue him. Those who break their promises to others, once in trouble, have to sit still.

Lyu3 bu4' s promise saved him from disaster.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu. He kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people have established a strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a proverb: "It is better to get a hundred pounds of gold than to keep a promise." (This is the origin of the idiom "a promise is as good as a gold") Later, he offended Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, and was offered a reward for his capture. As a result, his old friends not only were not confused by the heavy money, but also risked the extinction of Jiuzu to protect him from disaster. A person who is honest and trustworthy will naturally get a lot of help and gain everyone's respect and friendship. On the other hand, if you covet temporary comfort or petty advantages and lose trust in your friends, you will get "benefits" on the surface. But for this benefit, he ruined his reputation, which is much more important than material things. Therefore, breaking a promise to a friend is tantamount to losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, which is not worth the loss.

(For details, please refer to the Central Literature Publishing House's "Youth Ideological and Moral Education Reader". )

6. Honest stories

In the early years, few foreigners set foot in the southern foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. Later, many Japanese people came here for sightseeing, which is said to be because of the honesty of a teenager.

One day, several Japanese photographers invited a local teenager to buy beer, and the teenager ran for more than three hours.

The next day, the boy offered to buy them beer. The photographers gave him a lot of money this time, but the boy didn't come back until the afternoon of the third day. As a result, photographers talked about it and thought that the boy cheated the money away. On the third night, the boy knocked on the photographer's door. It turned out that he only bought four bottles of beer in one place, so he climbed a mountain, crossed a river, bought six more bottles, and broke three bottles when he came back. He took the broken glass in tears and returned the change to the photographer. All the people present were moved. This story deeply touched many foreigners. Later, more and more tourists came here.

7. Honest stories

In the riverside park in new york, there is a monument to the soldiers killed in the Civil War, and many tourists come to pay homage to the dead every year. General Grant's grave is located in the north of the park. He was the 18 th president of the United States and the commander-in-chief of the Union Army during the Civil War. The mausoleum is tall, majestic, solemn and simple. There is a large green lawn behind the mausoleum, which extends to the boundary of the park and the edge of the steep cliff.

Behind General Grant's mausoleum, closer to the cliff, there is also a children's mausoleum. This is a tiny and ordinary grave, and you may ignore it anywhere else. Like most American graves, it has only a small tombstone. On the tombstone and nearby're signs, there is a touching story about honesty:

The story happened on 1797 more than 200 years ago. This year, when the little owner of this land was five years old, he accidentally fell off the cliff here and died. His father was heartbroken and buried him here and built such a small mausoleum as a souvenir. A few years later, family fortune fell and the old owner had to transfer the land. Out of love for his son, he made a strange request to the future landowner. He asked the new owner to take the child's mausoleum as a part of the land and never destroy it. The new owner agreed and wrote this condition into the contract. In this way, the child's mausoleum was preserved.

Times have changed, and a hundred years have passed. I don't know how many times this land has been sold or how many owners have changed. The child's name has long been forgotten by the world, but the child's tomb is still there. According to one sales contract after another, it was completely preserved. 1897, this land of geomantic omen was chosen as the cemetery of General Grant. The government became the owner of this land, and the tomb of the Unknown Son was preserved intact in the hands of the government and became the neighbor of Grant General Cemetery. The grave adjacent to the grave of a great historical creator and the grave of an unknown child may be a unique miracle in the world.

One hundred years later, 1997, in memory of General Grant, Giuliani, then mayor of new york, came here. It happened to be the centenary of the establishment of General Grant's mausoleum and the bicentennial of the child's death. Mayor Giuliani personally wrote this touching story and carved it on the wooden sign, standing next to the tomb of nobody, so that this story about honesty can be passed down from generation to generation.

8. Stories about honesty

[Story 2] A soldier was not good at long-distance running, so he soon fell far behind in an army cross-country race and ran alone. After several turns, I met a fork in the road, a road marked by an officer; The other road is marked as the path for soldiers to run. He paused. Although he was dissatisfied that being an officer was even cheaper than cross-country races, he still ran towards the road of soldiers. I didn't expect to reach the finish line half an hour later, but I was ranked first. He felt incredible. He has never been ranked, let alone run into the top 50. However, the official in charge of the competition smiled and congratulated him on winning the competition.

A few hours later, a large number of people came, exhausted from running, and surprised to see him win. But suddenly everyone realized how important it is to be honest and trustworthy at the fork in the road.

This story happened in the home of an American manor owner.

One day at noon, the owner of the manor came back from outside, brought back a small sharp axe, put it by the door and went to work. As it happens, the son of the manor owner saw this axe. He looked at the shiny axe and liked it very much. He held it in his hand, looked around and thought: Is such a bright axe fast or not? He is eager to have a try. So he ran to cherry orchard with an axe. He chose a small cherry tree and learned to cut it like an adult. He raised his axe and cut it hard. There was only a click, and the young tree was cut off by the middle.

Seeing that he was in trouble, the boy ran home, put the axe back, hid in his hut, picked up a book with trepidation and pretended to be absorbed in reading. A few hours later, the master came back. When he passed through cherry orchard, he found that his favorite cherry tree had been cut down, and he immediately flew into a rage. When he got home, he called the fruit grower and reprimanded him, asking him to track down the person who cut down the tree. The little boy who has been hiding in the house saw this scene and thought, how bad it would be if I didn't admit it and blamed others wrongly! But on second thought, if I admit it, my father will blame me and maybe hit me. What should I do? He sat on the bed and hesitated for a long time. Finally, he boldly walked up to his father, bowed his head, blushed and said, "Dad, don't pursue it any more. I cut down the tree. " When my father asked about the situation, he not only didn't blame him, but also held him in his arms and said meaningfully, "Son, I am happy for your honesty." You know, being honest is the first thing to do, which is more precious than 100 cherry trees. "

The little boy nodded and took his father's words to heart. This little boy is the later American President Washington.

9. "Jade Ion" recorded a story that he lost his life because he broke his promise.

A businessman in Jiyang sank while crossing the river. He grabbed a hemp pole and shouted for help. A fisherman heard the sound. The businessman quickly shouted: "I am the richest man in Jiyang. If you can save me, I will give you 100 two gold. " . After being rescued ashore, the businessman turned his face and denied people. He only gave the fisherman 10 two gold. The fisherman accused him of breaking his word and going back on his word. The rich man said, "You are a fisherman. I can't make much money in my life. Is it not enough to suddenly get twelve taels of gold? " My husband must be very unhappy. Unexpectedly, the rich man capsized in the same place again. Someone tried to save him, and the person he cheated said, "He is a man of his word!" " "So the merchant drowned. It is accidental that the businessman capsized twice and met the same husband, but it is expected that the businessman will not be rewarded. Because if a person does not keep his word, he will lose the trust of others. So, once he is in trouble, no one wants to rescue him. Those who break their promises to others, once in trouble, have to sit still.

10. Lyu3 bu4' s "a promise as good as a promise" saved him from the disaster.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a man named Ji Bu. He kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people have established a strong friendship with him. At that time, there was even a proverb: "It is better to get a hundred pounds of gold than to keep a promise." (This is the origin of the idiom "a promise is as good as a gold") Later, he offended Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, and was offered a reward for his capture. As a result, his old friends not only were not confused by the heavy money, but also risked the extinction of Jiuzu to protect him from disaster. A person who is honest and trustworthy will naturally get a lot of help and gain everyone's respect and friendship. On the other hand, if you covet temporary comfort or petty advantages and lose trust in your friends, you will get "benefits" on the surface. But for this benefit, he ruined his reputation, which is much more important than material things. Therefore, breaking a promise to a friend is tantamount to losing a watermelon and picking up sesame seeds, which is not worth the loss.

1 1. This is a true story of China IT industry, and the protagonist is Huang Bin, the president of Peking University Tianzheng.

1993, Huang Bin shared a small frontage garage in Zhongguancun. At that time, their capital was only 3000 yuan, but it was also ambitious.

A man from the Northeast came to Beijing to stock up and asked Huang Bin for an offer. He found that the price was much lower than that of similar products, which was incredible! He immediately signed a contract of 200,000 yuan and left contentedly. Who knows, after signing the list, Huang Bin found that he had quoted the wrong price. This means that if he continues to do this business, he will lose more than 65438+100000 yuan, and become an out-and-out debtor from a businessman.

He hesitated, not knowing which way to go. The first is to keep your reputation and continue to do business honestly, even if you lose your head! The second is to explain the reason to the other party and ask him to make up the difference; Rule number three, push out this list and say it can't be done.

After several days of thinking and weighing, he made a promise to himself: stick to the first road.

An old frontiersman loses his horse—a blessing in disguise. After learning the truth, the Northeastern was very moved and immediately gave him a list of 654.38+00,000 according to the market price. Soon, the price of computer accessories in Zhongguancun was lowered collectively. It is conceivable that Huang Bin won more than hundreds of thousands of things with his integrity! IT was with this money that he opened the market and eventually became an elite figure in the IT field.

Later, someone joked with him and asked him how much he earned from the first bucket of gold he found. He always said, I didn't make a profit, but I lost more than 1000. However, I found a bucket of gold full of color, and that is honesty.

What is honesty:

Honesty is one of the traditional virtues of China people. Whether in the past or now, honesty is extremely important for the construction of human social civilization. We will explain it to you from the following aspects. ? Honesty is the foundation of people? Confucius said, "People without faith don't know what they can do. People think that if people don't keep their promises, there will be no place in society and nothing can be done. ? Honesty is the way to keep a family together? Wei Zhi, a famous minister in the Tang Dynasty, said, "Husband and wife are kind, but if they are not sincere, they will leave. As long as husband and wife, father and son, and brothers are honest and trustworthy, they can live in harmony and achieve the goal of "home and everything". If families lack loyalty and distrust each other, families will gradually collapse. ? Honesty is the way to make friends? Only by "making friends widely and keeping promises" can we achieve the purpose of "trusting friends", confide in each other and help selflessly. Otherwise, friends are full of hypocrisy and deception, and there will never be real friends. Friends are based on honesty. ? Honesty is the foundation of politics? "Zuo Zhuan" says: "Faith is a national treasure. It is pointed out that honesty is the fundamental magic weapon for governing the country. Of the three, Confucius would rather "join the army" and "go to eat" and insist on retaining "the trust of the people". Because Confucius believed that "the people can't be untrustworthy", if the people don't trust the rulers, the political affairs of the country are simply untenable. Therefore, the ruler must "win the trust of the people", as Wang Anshi said: "Since ancient times, people have been driven by sincerity, and a word is more important than gold. " ? Honesty is the soul of business? In modern society, when signing a contract, businessmen expect the other party to abide by it. Honesty is the best competitive means of various commercial activities, the soul of market economy and the real "golden business card" of entrepreneurs. ? Honesty is a "good medicine for the soul"? As the old saying goes, "if you are sincere in turn, you will be happy." "Only sincerity and truthfulness can make one's heart clear, calm and peaceful, bring the greatest spiritual happiness to people, and become a good medicine for people to soothe their hearts. If people don't talk about honesty, it will lead to social disorder, mutual distrust and endless troubles. As the article "Lv Chunqiu Gui Xin" said, the monarch and his subjects are not trustworthy, the people slander the court, and the country is not at peace; Being an official is not trustworthy, not afraid of being long, it is light; If rewards and punishments are not believed, the people are easy to break the law and it is difficult to give orders; If you don't keep your word when making friends, you will hate each other and can't date each other; If all the workers don't believe it, the quality of handmade products will be rough, shoddy and the paint dyeing will be incorrect. It can be seen that dishonesty is harmful to society! ? Generally speaking, honesty is an indispensable virtue for self-cultivation, maintaining family order, making friends, doing business and even politics, which shows the importance of honesty in human society.