Every man Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Hard, brown, ancient, he possessed a prehistoric strain of maleness, a blend of grit and integrity and calcified stubbornness that was rare in Lyndon…

— Phil Knight

“A man is only as good as his tools.”

— Emmert Wolf

“The tools of his trade included faith, perseverance, resilience, and the ability to learn—to change and to grow. But his greatest tool of all,…

— Shimon Peres

“The small strength and speed of man, his want of natural weapons, etc., are more than counterbalanced, firstly, by his intellectual powers, through which…

— Charles Darwin

“A man must wage war on himself to defeat his weaknesses and conquer his strengths”

— Dennis Adonis III

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

— Gordon Lightfoot

“Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Word of his great strength, intelligence, and perseverance had spread even this far, and yet his youth was such that my father knew he…

— Daniel Wallace

“He had suddenly the clearest understanding he had ever had of the way his father had gone so wrong. A man's strength was supposed…

— Laura Florand

“Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his…

— Ken Follett

“A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly,”

— Theodore Dreiser

He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

— Confucious