HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

Do you think that “Honesty is the best policy”?

I agree with the statement honesty is the best policy. Everyone, to succeed in his or her life, should follow it. Though we can make money by improper ways, it would not give us good status in society. I believe that honesty is important for both personal life and business life. As we go through the history of the great leaders, they all succeed in their life mainly by their life style. They all followed the truth and honesty. Honesty is very important in many aspects of our life. If we are honest, everyone will believe us.

Living in the world these days is really hard. People are not honest with each other and not being honest always causes problems that sometimes leads to someone getting hurt emotionally or physically. It seems that in everyday life there is something someone can always lie about. In my opinion I think lying is wrong and should always tell the truth. Because everyone you come to talk to will trust you, if you do lie the truth will eventually come out, and if you do not lie you will have a clean conscious.

If you do not lie it will be a big advantage to you. Everyone you come to talk to or you know will trust you because they now that your not a liar. You will have good friends and a great job. Like my oldest sister graduated from college. She never lies and she has a great job and she’s someone you can trust. People these days no matter what business they own want to hire honest people, people they can trust and that can work hard.

If you think about it lying does not do you or anyone any good. It does not solve anything. Maybe at first if you are a good liar it will, but eventually the trust will come out. When the truth does come out things get bad and problems start to happen. People sometimes get hurt emotionally and physically. For example, if a couple breaks up people sometimes may be fired if it has anything to do with their work, or you can even loose a good friend. You see this all the time in talk shows. Were people come out telling the truth to someone about something they lied about. Then the other people end up getting hurt. It is not worth loosing anything over a lie.

The most important reason why I think people should always tell the truth is so that you can have a clean conscious. If you lie eventually its gonna get to your conscious. You will be thinking about the lie and about getting caught. Having a clean conscious is the best thing, you can have. It makes you fell good and you do not have anything to worry about. For Example Bill Clinton when the scandal came out about him and Monica he denied everything. But then with the pressure of the press and his wife he came out with the truth. It was probably the only thing he was thinking about and couldn’t concentrate on other things. So if you have a clear conscious you are more comfutureble with your self and around others.

People may disagree with me and say it is o.k. To lie when it is appropriate, but who can actually decide what is appropriate or not. People can always be saying to themselves that it’s appropriate on anything they want to lie about. Some people may say that it is o.k. To lie so they will not hurt someone they love, but if they did not want to hurt this person they would not have said or done anything that would lead this person to lie. Finally, another thing people might say its o.k. lie if it’s a small lie that wont hurt any one, but what I think is that if you think it’s a small lie then why lie about it. There is no need for it.

Living in the world these days it is hard enough with out having to lie all the time. If people were honest, we would not have so many problems. It does not pay to lie because although you might not get caught your conscious will eventually get to you. There is nothing like honesty and as the saying goes honesty is the best policy.
 

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