You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

If the Superior Man is not serious, then he will not inspire awe in others. If he is not learned, then he will not be on firm ground. He takes loyalty and good faith to be of primary importance, and has no friends who are not of equal (moral) caliber.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.