One Word

Pride is independence...humility is dependence on God.
Pride is an unwillingness to wait for God to act in His own time and in His own way.
Pride rushes in to take matters into its own hands when it appears that God is not working fast enough.
Pride is impatience.
Pride is wanting to be in control of our situations.

The Cross represents the death of all my own plans, all my own ideas, my own desires, my own hopes and dreams. It is most of all the absolute death of my own will. This is true humility. Humility is associated only with the Cross.

Philippians 2:8 He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross...doing the will of God who sent Him. John 4:34

One of the biggest traps for Christians is a good idea that is not God's mind...a good strategy that is not His... a well-conceived plan that is not His will for us. First we must die to our self-will in order to clearly hear God's will.

Humility is trusting God to do the right thing at the right time in the right way. It is trusting Him to use you in the right way at the right time.

Humility is patiently waiting on the Lord in a spirit of expectant faith.  God says, "You won't be sorry if you do it My way. Patience is doing a work in you. You are becoming strong by waiting in faith. Let patience do its perfect work in you. "

Colossians 1:10-11 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience.

Humility is believing that God's intentions for you are deeply good, all the time.

Excerpt from The Awful Sin of Pride, David Wilkerson, Living Water Magazine Vol 19 #2 
with a few thoughts of my own interspersed.