The phrase "a humble beginning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the initial stage of a person's life, career, or project that started modestly or without much recognition.
Example: "Despite having a humble beginning, she went on to become a successful entrepreneur and inspire many others."
Alternatives: "a modest start" or "a simple origin".
Kalam had a humble beginning.
The show had a humble beginning, with about 12 million viewers on average, middling by CBS standards at the time.
From a humble beginning in Brooklyn where he graduated from Brooklyn College, to a life of depth and great accomplishments, he lived life to the fullest.
ZHANG GUIDONG GREW up on a farm in Anhui, a poor inland province, where China's economic reforms made a humble beginning.
The political reverberations still rumbling through southeast Queens — the heart of middle-class black New York — can be traced to a humble beginning.
It is in the roofs of these underground drains that the first surviving true arches in brick are found, a humble beginning for what would become a major structural form.
In September Forbes named PillPack one of the 25 "Next Billion-Dollar Startups," a list compiled from nearly 200 different venture capital firms around the country, a very easy pill to swallow for a company that had a fairly humble beginning at an MIT hackathon.
It was also doubling-up as the inaugural round of a brand new event: the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC), also created by the ACO, a relatively humble beginning for a competition that shows huge promise in taking sports car endurance racing on to a worldwide stage.
SAP entered the customer relations field in 1999, but even Darc Dencker-Rasmussen, the vice president overseeing SAP's efforts in the area, described that as a "very humble beginning". Now, though, he says he is convinced that SAP has the superior product if for no other reason than its integration with the suite of applications his company sells to some of the world's largest corporations.
"It was a way to give voice to some of the things that I wanted to say and see the audience deal with," said von Stuelpnagel who shared that Hand to God had a very humble beginning Off Off Broadway.
