Ability Quote by Joseph Conrad

Men have become the tools of their tools.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Group work is important but the true strength of a man is tested by his individual work.

— Terry Mark

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

— John Ruskin

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Great men are ordinary men with an extraordinary amount of determination.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

— Anonymous

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

— Edmund Burke

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

— Idries Shah

“A man is only as good as his tools.”

— Emmert Wolf

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

— Sir Fulke Greville