It is often confused with having a low self-worth.
Really a person should know their qualities and positive characteristics.
Humility, is knowing one’s qualities and not using them to look down upon others.
It is using one’s qualities to help others.
It is acknowledging Hash-m in providing you with these qualities.
Thus each person should recognize and know their own greatness to be able to accomplish as much as they can to help the Jewish people and the world.
Moses was the most humble of all men. Yet his accomplishments were the greatest of all people.
Here is a list of qualities from the book – Gateway to Happiness by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin.
You should feel good about yourself:
Able ● Accepting ● Accessible ● Accomplished ● Accurate ● Adaptable ● Adept ● Adroit ● Affable ● Agile ● Agreeable ● Altruistic ● Ambitious ● Amicable ● Appreciative ● Articulate ● Assertive ● Astute ● Attentive ● Aware ● Beloved ● Benefactor ● Benevolent ● Blissful ● Brave ● Bright ● Brilliant ● Buoyant● Calm ● Candid ● Capable ● Careful ● Caring ● Cautious ● Charitable ● Cheerful ● Clear ● Colorful ● Compassionate ● Composed ● Confident ● Conscientious ● Considerate ● Consistent ● Content ● Cooperative ● Courageous ● Creative ● Daring ● Dauntless ● Decisive ● Deep ● Deliberative ● Dependable ● Devoted ● Devout ● Dexterous ● Dignified ● Diligent ● Direct ● Discreet ● Easygoing ● Earnest ● Educated ● Effective ● Efficient ● Eloquent ● Energetic ● Enthusiastic ● Erudite ● Ethical ● Exact ● Expressive ● Faithful ● Farsighted ● Flexible ● Fluent ● Forgiving ● Frank ● Friendly ● Frugal ● Generous ● Gentle ● Genuine ● Gifted ● Giving ● Good-natured ● Graceful ● Grateful ● Handy ● Happy ● Hardworking ● Healthy ● Helpful ● Honest ● Honorable ● Hopeful ● Hospitable ● Humane ● Humble ● Idealistic ● Imaginative ● Imperturbable ● Indefatigable ● Industrious ● Intellectual ● Intelligent ● Intrepid ● Influences others ● Interesting ● Introspective ● Jolly ● Joyful ● Kind ● Kindhearted ● Knowledgeable● Leadership personality ● Learned ● Lenient ● Level-headed ● Likeable ● Lively ● Lofty ● Logical ● Loving ● Loyal● Magnanimous ● Mature ● Merciful ● Methodical ● Meticulous ● Mild ● Modest ● Moral ● Natural ● Noble ● Novel ● Obedient ● Objective ● Open ● Optimistic ● Orderly ● Organized ● Original ● Outgoing ● Outspoken ● Painstaking ● Patient ● Peace of mind ● Peaceful ● Perspective ● Persevering ● Persuasive ● Poised ●Polished ● Polite ● Popular ● Potential ● Practical ● Precise ● Productive ● Prompt ● Prudent ● Punctual ● Quiet ● Quieting ● Rapport with people ● Rational ● Realistic ● Reasonable ● Refined ● Relaxed ● Reliable ● Resourceful ● Respectful ● Responsible ● Righteous ● Saintly ● Scholarly ● Scrupulous ● Selfless ● Self-control ● Self-esteem ● Self-respect ● Self-sacrificing ● Sense of humor● Sensible● Sensitive● Serene ● Serious ● Sharp ● Sincere ● Skillful ● Smart ● Sociable ● Speedy ● Spirited ● Spiritual ● Stable ● Steadfast ● Steady ● Straightforward ● Studious ● Sweet ● Swift ● Sympathetic ● Systematic ● Tactful ● Talented ● Tasteful ● Thankful ●_ Thorough ● Thoughtful ● Thrifty ● Tidy ● Tolerant ● Tranquil ● Trustful ● Trustworthy ● Truthful ● Unafraid ● Understanding ● Upright ● Venturesome ● Vigorous ● Virtuous ● Warm ● Wholehearted ● Wise ● Will-power ● Zestful
Print it and circle your good qualities. And keep it on your wall to remind you how good you really are.
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