Working Definition:

Humble – yielding cheerfully to authority, one’s weaknesses and the help of others.

Unique Qualities:

  1. Modest: Not boasting about oneself.
  2. Unassuming: Without pretence.
  3. Submissive: Quietly obedient.
  4. Meek: Modest; obliging.
  5. Unpretentious: No unwarranted claim to importance.

Opposite Qualities

(what humble is not):

  1. Arrogant: An offensive attitude of superiority.
  2. Proud: Having excessive self-esteem.
  3. Haughty: Disdainfully superior.