Humility Can Be

Reserve

Modesty

Meekness

Subjection

Humbleness

Contentment

Resignation

Groundedness

Nonresistance

Lack of pride

A noble grace

Self-abasement

Submissiveness

Lack of vanity

Being inselved

Self-abnegation

Surrender to God

Unpretentiousness

Lowliness of mind

Humbleness of mind

An act of submission

The opposite of pride

A guiding light of life

A quality of leadership

Being willing to be little

The surest sign of strength

Valuing others above ourselves

Complete honesty about ourselves

The proper estimate of ourselves

Freedom from pride and arrogance

A modest estimate of our own worth

A universal core character strength

The solid foundation of all virtues

The first test of a truly great person

The foundation of all the other virtues

Not meekness or self-deprecating thought

Submitting to God and legitimate authority

A low self-regard and sense of unworthiness

The effacing of ourself to something higher

A sign of Godly strength and purpose, not weakness

A basic disposition of the interpreter of the Bible

The opposite of pride, arrogance and refractoriness

A healthy balance between pride and self-devaluation

The softening shadow before the stature of excellence

Not caring who gets the credit for things accomplished

A low opinion of ourself, and a contempt of vain glory

A deep sense of our own unworthiness in the sight of God

A beautiful centre, from which every other virtue radiates

That low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot

The root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue

Recognizing the limits of our talents, ability, or authority

An outward expression of an appropriate inner, or self regard

Not thinking less of ourselves, but thinking of ourselves less

An appreciation of ourselves, our talents, skills, and virtues

Placing ourselves neither higher nor lower than we ought to do

Submission to the divine will, without murmuring or peevishness

To place others first, to appreciate others' worth as important

Self-understanding and awareness, openness, and perspective taking

Self-abasement, penitence for sin, and submission to the divine will

An idealistic and rare intrinsic construct that has an extrinsic side

When once we thought we were something, now we see that we are nothing

A virtue by which a man knowing himself as he truly is, abases himself

Not looking to our own interests but looking to the interests of others

Not thinking meanly of ourselves, simply not thinking of ourselves at all

A recognition of self in relation to God, and subsequent submission to God

Not to think lowly of ourselves, but to appreciate the self we have received

Throwing ourselves away in complete concentration on something or someone else

Having an accurate assessment of our own nature and our own place in the cosmos

A virtue which centers on low self-preoccupation, or unwillingness to put ourselves forward

An attitude towards ourselves - a restraining of our own power so as to allow room for others

The certain mark of a bright reason, and elevated soul, as being the natural consequence of them

An awareness that our individual talents alone are inadeqate to the tasks that have been assigned to us

Keeping ourselves within our own bounds, not reaching out to things above one, but submitting to our superior

The freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe

Having the understanding that, even as a small seed, we are still an important part of the greater plan, but not the master planner

Not being in denial of our talents and gifts but recognizing them and living up to our worth and something greater in the service of others

A liberation from consciousness of self, a form of temperance that is neither having pride (or haughtiness) nor indulging in self-deprecation

Recognizing virtues and talents that others possess, particularly those that surpass our own, and giving due honor and, when required, obedience

That meta-attitude that constitutes the moral agent's proper perspective on himself as a dependent and corrupt but capable and dignified rational agent

A potential part of temperance because temperance includes all those virtues that restrain or express the inordinate movements of our desires or appetites

That freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight

The luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature

When we come to have our minds cleared by reason from those thick mists that our disorderly passions cast about them; when we come to discern more perfectly, and consider more nearly, the immense power and goodness, the infinite glory and duration of God; and, to make a comparison between these perfections of his, and our own frailty and weakness, and the shortness and uncertainty of our beings