Inspirational Short Stories – Motivational Stories

The first motivational story is about the clever work of a merchant's daughter in a small town in Italy a hundred years ago. An old merchant borrowed some money from a bloodsucking moneylender of the town for his business. But due to several consecutive losses and the moneylender's interest money was coming out at a compounding rate, it became difficult for the merchant to repay the money. He could not repay the money on time. At that time, the moneylender said that he would forgive all the debts on one condition, if the merchant married his daughter to the moneylender.

The moneylender was not a good person so he did not like the merchant's proposal. Then the moneylender said okay then let's test our luck with the white and black pebbles in your garden. I will take a white and a black pebble from the rocky path of this garden and put it in a bag. From there, your daughter will pick a pebble. If she picks up the black stone, she will marry me and I will forgive all your debts, and if she picks up the white stone, I will also forgive your debts, but your daughter will not have to marry me.

At that time, when the moneylender was picking up pebbles from the garden path to put in the bag, the girl saw that the moneylender had taken both black stones instead of one white and one black stone and put them in the bag. In this situation, the girl had three options:-

Refuse to pick up the stones from the bag.

Remove both the pebbles from the bag and expose the moneylender's conspiracy.

Dedicate herself to her father's freedom by picking up a stone, knowing that both the bags were black stones.

But each of these steps brought danger to her and her father. But what the girl did made the moneylender stupid.

The girl took out a stone from the bag and before she could see it, out of ignorance, dropped it on the rocky road. And pretended that the stone had fallen down by accident and she had not had a chance to see its color. She told the moneylender, “Look, what a fool I have been, the stone fell from my hand before I could see its color. Check the bag to see what color stone I picked up.” Since there were only 2 black stones in the bag, according to the moneylender’s condition, the stone that fell should be white. This is how the girl and her father were saved from the moneylender’s trick.

Think of the story in another way: There is always a way out of a difficult situation. You just have to keep your head cool and think a little outside the box. There may be options beyond the options that we are given.

2. Learn to change yourself – Change yourself, the world will be changed

Learn to change yourself

Once a king was very troubled by eye problems. So the king tried many places but could not get his eyes better.

After many days, the king found that there was a monk living in the forest of his kingdom. Who could fix all the problems of the king’s eyes.

Finally the king went to the monk and said, "Sannyasi, fix my eye problem." The monk saw him and said, "King, I understand your problem."

"You do one thing, from now on, look only at red things. Just look at the red color, and then you will see that everything will be fine." The king said, "Okay, okay."

The king returned to his kingdom and painted his entire palace and everything red. After a few days, the king's eyes gradually started getting better.

Then the king was happy and said to his soldiers, "Go and bring that monk, I want to reward him."

Then when the monk arrived, the soldiers filled buckets and painted him with red paint.

When the monk came to the king, the king asked him, "How are you?"

Then the monk said, "I can see it," he said angrily, "King, why did you ask me to paint him with such red paint?"

The king said, “Why did you say that I can see red, if I didn’t give you the color, my eyes would be in trouble if I saw you.”

Then the monk said, “King, you could have worn red glasses.”

The king said, “Oh, really!” The king was embarrassed.

Then the monk said, “You see, King, when we have problems, we want to change everything around us, but we don’t notice that the solution to the problem is within us.”

We don’t have to go to a big country to change ourselves, we can change ourselves from our own country. If we change, our family will change, our society will change, and if society changes, our country will change.

Learn to change yourself The lesson of the story: We can solve many of our problems by making small changes within ourselves if we want.

Read more: The wisdom of the chef – wouldn’t the pot fly away if we clapped our hands?

3. Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Stop Comparing Yourself to Others – An Inspirational Short Story

A crow lived in a forest. He was very happy with his life.

But one day he saw a swan.… …

He breathed his last on this side of the river, and I believe that happiness lies on that side.

Ah! How beautiful the swan is! The crow thought. Surely he is the happiest bird in the world.

The crow told the swan about his thoughts.

“Actually,” the swan replied, “I thought I was the happiest bird here, until I saw a jay… … who has two colors on his body. So now I think that the jay is the happiest bird in creation.”

The crow then went to the jay. Tia told him, “I was very, very happy, until I saw the peacock.… … I have only two colors on my body, and the peacock has so many colors!”

The crow then went to the zoo to meet the peacock. There he saw that hundreds of people had gathered to see the peacock.

After everyone had left, the crow