Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is 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. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

I always had the sense I was in the presence of a man who was regal but humble,

We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high as or higher than we are.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.