The Best 5 Must Read Short Stories with Moral

Short stories with moral - There are many stories which have good moral lessons. "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories" is a good compilation of these types of moral stories.

On these short stories below you can find some good moral stories that teach all of us wisdom and give you better understanding of yourself and people around you.

1. Short Stories with Moral: The Wise Man

Some people have been coming to the wise man, complaining about the same problems every time. One day this wise man told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter.

After a couple of minutes, the wise man told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.

When he told the same joke for the 3rd-time no one laughed anymore.

He smiled and said:

“You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?”

Moral of the story:

Worrying won’t solve our problems, it’ll just waste our time and energy.

2. Short Stories with Moral: Having A Best Friend

There are 2-friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and a friend slapped the other one in the face.

The friend who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand;

“Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”

The two kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath.

The friend who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but his friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, the friend wrote on a stone;

“Today my best friend saved my life.”

The one who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him;

“After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The friend replied;

“When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Moral of the story:

Do not value the things we have in our life. But value who we have in our life.

3. Short Stories with Moral: The 4-Smart Students

Someday at a night 4-college students were out partying late night and didn’t study for the test which was scheduled for the next day. In the morning, all of them thought of a plan.

These students made themselves look dirty with grease and dirt.

Then all of four students went to the Dean and said they had gone out to a wedding last night and on their way back the tire of their car burst and they had to push the car all the way back. So all of the students were in no condition to take the test.

The Dean thought for a minute and said they can have the re-test after three-days. Off course, The students thanked him and said they will be ready by that time.

On the 3rd-day, they appeared before the Dean. The Dean said that as this was a Special Condition Test, all of them were required to sit in separate classrooms for the test. The students all agreed as they had prepared well in the last three-days.

The Test consisted of only two-questions with the total of 100 (a hundred) Points:

1. Your Name? ___ (1-Points)
2. Which tire burst? ___ (99-Points)
• Options – (a) Front-Left (b) Front-Right (c) Back-Left (d) Back-Right

Moral of the story:

Take responsibility or we will learn our lesson.

4. Short Stories with Moral: The Struggles of Life

Someday a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it.

The daughter was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.

The father, a chef, took his daughter to the kitchen. He filled 3-pots with water and placed each on a high fire.

Once the 3-pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the 2nd-pot and ground coffee beans in the 3rd-pot. The father then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter.

She moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what her father was doing. After 20-minutes the father turned off the burners.

The father took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. Her father pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.

The father then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to his daughter, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”

“Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she hastily replied.

“Look closer” the father said, “and touch the potatoes.” His daughter did and noted that they were soft.

The father then asked his daughter to take an egg and break it.

After pulling off the shell, the daughter observed the hard-boiled egg.

Finally, the father asked his daughter to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to his daughter's face.

“Father, what does this mean?” she asked.

The father then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity-the boiling water. However, each one reacted differently. The potato went in strong, hard and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.

The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.

However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

“Which one are you?” the father asked his daughter.

“When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

Moral of the story:

In our life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is how we choose to react to it and what we make out of it.
Life is all about leaning, adopting and converting all the struggles that we experience into something positive.

5. Short Stories with Moral: An Old Man Lived in the Village

There's an old man who lived in a village. This man was one of the most unfortunate people in the world. The whole village was tired of this old man; he was always gloomy, also constantly complained and he was always in a bad mood.

The longer this man lived, the more bile he was becoming and the more poisonous were his words. People avoided this man, because his misfortune became contagious.

It was even unnatural and insulting to be happy next to this old man.

The old man created the feeling of unhappiness in others.

But in a day, when this old man turned 80-years old, an incredible thing happened. Instantly people started hearing the rumour:

“An Old Man is happy today, he doesn’t complain about anything, smiles, and even his face is freshened up.”

Whole people of village gathered together. The old man was asked:

People of village: What happened to you?

“Nothing special. 80-years I’ve been chasing happiness, and it was useless. And then I decided to live without happiness and just enjoy life. That’s why I’m happy now.” – An Old Man

Moral of the story:

Don’t chase happiness. Enjoy our life.