We just keep harping on the fact that if you remain humble and don't get too full of yourselves, good things are going to happen.

If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

A humble scientist is a good scientist.

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.