It's not just the ancients who keep their word, but now: Chen Meili, who is known as "the most beautiful village woman in China", endured grief six days after her husband died from fighting a mountain fire accident, and posted a notice on her external wall, demanding to pay off her dead husband's debt. When someone asked why she posted a "debt repayment notice", she simply replied: it is only natural to pay back debts.
"Honest Brother"-Xu Jinku, the operator of Jiaohe 057 10 betting station in Jilin Province, insisted on his responsibility and integrity in the face of winning lottery tickets left by foreigners in the store, helped the owner to redeem the prize money, tried every means to find the winner, and finally returned nearly 10,000 yuan to the owner, even though his monthly income at the betting station was only more than 500 yuan. He said: if I don't do that, I will be unconscionable.
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-So this is the way for us modern people to keep our faith straight: keep our promises and don't deceive ourselves! The people who made these acts of righteousness today, just like Ji Zha, who is famous in history, have a heart as bright as gold.
People can't stand without faith, and honesty is a simple virtue. Just like the characters mentioned above, there are no lofty words, no strong words, only silent and conscious actions and the most authentic words shine with moving light, which makes people feel respect, moral brilliance and human warmth. A world with moral glory and warm humanity is a better world.
Confucius said, "People without faith don't know what they can do. If there is no cart, what can it do? " A person without trust is like a wheel with no support at the center and edge, so he can't walk. Honesty is the most basic and fundamental moral requirement, the most important moral quality of human beings and the cornerstone of social existence and development. A society with lack of credit and low morality cannot have rapid, sustained and benign development and progress. Only by stressing honesty can we establish a normal economic life order. Only by keeping faith can people have mutual trust, social life run normally and develop forward. People who don't talk about honesty may get immediate benefits, but they can't last long; Honest and trustworthy people, although sometimes lose something in front of them, can be "honest, smooth and beautiful", win the long-term sustainable development of life, and build an evergreen foundation-in terms of personality, reputation and career ambition.
Honesty is the basic principle of treating people with things and the traditional virtue of our nation. A wise man once said, "Losing credit is the biggest failure. No credit, no loss. " Only honesty can win people's trust, and a person who doesn't keep his word can't be respected by others and recognized by society, and there can be no real success.
Being a man is like this, and so is doing business. Market economy is a credit economy. Without credit, what about the deal? Under the market economy, profit is the pursuit of business operators, but it cannot be profit-oriented. Money doesn't ask the source, even cheats and hides the conscience, taking the health and life of consumers as a bet to gain their own interests. Today, with the wave of "green consumption" in the ascendant, enterprises should shoulder the social responsibility of honesty. This is the need for corporate citizens to improve their own morality, and it is also the need for the survival and development of enterprises: because those "black-hearted" enterprises and enterprises without credibility must not operate for a long time, but long-term existence can bring sustained profits. Melamine milk powder, waste oil, dyed steamed bread, clenbuterol ... Their related enterprises are not only facing the fate of bankruptcy, but also legal sanctions. Of course, such sanctions should be implemented as soon as possible to show punishment.
Honesty requires individual persistence and practice, as well as the promotion and protection of the whole society. Let's start from ourselves and call on relevant departments to establish a more effective credit guarantee mechanism as soon as possible. When honesty and integrity become universal, the social air we breathe will be more fresh and pleasant-this is people's pursuit of an ideal life home, which has never changed since ancient times. Although sometimes it will face challenges and even make people feel a little pessimistic, sometimes honesty may not get a good reputation but will be framed, but what kind of righteous act will it be? Social civilization and progress also have a price. Of course, the cost of a just act should be minimized. Relevant departments should also make active efforts to make dishonest people pay a higher price and let facts tell people that honesty is rewarding.
"I am sincere, therefore I am", and honesty is only for peace of mind-this should be an unchanging theme in a person's heart and a society. Faith endures, and virtue endures. (Zhou Zi)