Meekness

"If we peeled away from our many verbal communications the ego-driven portion (things said thoughtlessly, or for effect, or to achieve advantage), how much substance would then remain?

Meekness serves us well in this respect and in so many others. When, for instance, we are overlooked or bypassed, we can easily feel slighted. Meekness emancipates us from such a reaction, because it neither regards others as rivals nor as objects of envy. Nor does meekness spend valuable time decoding incoming communications in anxious search of praise, criticism, or hidden meanings. Meekness also avoids that added fatigue brought on by the breathless pursuit of preeminence.

Whether at the office roundtable or in our neighborhoods, it isn't that the meek always and automatically have better information. Rather, they draw strength from a much more fundamental assurance: they know that God loves them (1 Nephi 11:17). They also know that the Lord is just and is "no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34), so they seek to please Him rather than playing for approval from the various niche galleries.

The meek are simply more free, more peaceful, and more cheerful."

Elder Neal A. Maxwell - Whom the Lord Loveth