Here’s some of the best short moral stories:

 

An old man lived in the village. He was one of the most unfortunate people in the world. The whole village was tired of him; he was always gloomy, he constantly complained and was always in a bad mood.

 

The longer he lived, the more bile he was becoming and the more poisonous were his words. People avoided him, because his misfortune became contagious. It was even unnatural and insulting to be happy next to him.

 

He created the feeling of unhappiness in others.

 

But one day, when he turned eighty years old, an incredible thing happened. Instantly everyone started hearing the rumour:

 

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

 

The whole village gathered together.

The old man was asked:

 

Villager: What happened to you?

 

“Nothing special. Eighty 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 your life.

 

Short Moral Stories - The Wise Man

 

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

 

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

 

When he told the same joke for the third time no one laughed anymore.

 

The wise man smiled and said:

 

“You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over.

So why are you always crying about the same problem?”

 

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

 

Short Moral Stories - The Foolish Donkey

 

A salt seller used to carry the salt bag on his donkey to the market every day.

 

On the way they had to cross a stream. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down the stream and the salt bag also fell into the water. The salt dissolved in the water and hence the bag became very light to carry. The donkey was happy.

 

Then the donkey started to play the same trick every day.

 

The salt seller came to understand the trick and decided to teach a lesson to it. The next day he loaded a cotton bag on the donkey.

 

Again it played the same trick hoping that the cotton bag would be still become lighter.

 

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But the dampened cotton became very heavy to carry and the donkey suffered. It learnt a lesson.

It didn’t play the trick anymore after that day, and the seller was happy.

 

Luck won’t favor always.

 

Short Moral Stories - Having A Best Friend

 

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

 

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

 

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

 

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone;

 

“Today my best friend saved my life.”

 

The friend 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 other 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: 

Don’t value the things you have in your life. But value who you have in your life.