Humility - christiansquoting.org.uk

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?

Humility is the only certain defense against humiliation.

Humility can be sought but never celebrated.

Life is a long lesson in humility.~James M. Barrie

I was but a pen, and what praise is due to a pen? -- Baxter, _Reliquiae Baxterianae_

Gielgud is a very humble man. He can be wayward, obstinate and maddeningly changeable, but one can forgive all these because he sets so little store by his own reputation.-Alan Bennett, 8 October 1968.

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Attr to Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) in Horace Walpole, "Anecdotes of Painting in England" 1763.

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.-- William Gurnall

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces..-- William Gurnall

A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine;
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th' action fine.
The Elixir.George Herbert. 1593-1632

I see only one thing to do at the moment. Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. Catch him at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, "By jove! I'm being humble", and almost immediately pride at his own humility will appear.--C. S. Lewis, _The Screwtape Letters_

"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth. Be content." C S Lewis Prince Caspian

Faithful service in a lowly place is true spiritual greatness. D Jackman

Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel Johnson (Hester Thrale Piozzi: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson)

Humility is nothing else but the right judgment of ourselves. --William Law

Here is another (earlier?) translation by Charles Cotton that I found somewhere on the web. It is based on the 1575 edition of the Essays.
To enter a breach, conduct an embassy, govern a people, are actions of renown: to reprehend, laugh, sell, pay, love, hate, and gently and justly converse with a man's own family, and with himself; not to relax, not to give a man's self the lie is more rare and hard, and less remarkable."

Storming a breach, conducting an embassy, ruling a nation, are glittering deeds. Rebuking, laughing, buying, selling, loving, hating, and living together gently and justly with your household - and with yourself - not getting slack nor belying yourself, is something more remarkable, more rare and more difficult."
from essay "On Repenting" - Book 3, Essay 2 Translation by M.A.Screech Penguin "The Complete Essays" ISBN 0-14-044604-

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton (1915-1968), No Man Is An Island (1955)

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I ever met. Dwight L. Moody

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.--Thomas Moore, The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story.

It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.- JOHN OWEN

Don't let your head get too big, it'll break your neck -Elvis Presley