a bad workman always blames his tools

Proverb

 * 1) It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them.
 * 2) ** Never had ill workman good tools.
 * 3) ** An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.
 * 4) Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.
 * 1) ** An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.
 * 2) Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.

Translations

 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一個差的工人總是指責他的工具
 * Dutch: een kwaad werkman heeft altijd slecht getuig
 * Finnish: kyllä sika syitä löytää, välillä on maa jäässä, välillä kärsä kipeä
 * French: ,
 * German: wenn der Reiter nichts taugt, hat das Pferd Schuld, ein schlechter Handwerker schimpft immer auf sein Werkzeug
 * Hindi: नाच न जाने आँगन टेढ़ा
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: droch-cheardaí a chuireann an milleán ar a chuid uirlisí, ní thig a sháith de chorrán a thabhairt do dhrochbhuanaí
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 나쁜 일꾼은 제 공구를 탓한다
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: تق تاهو مناري دکاتاکن لنتاي جوڠکڠ-جوڠکيت, تق تاهو مناري دکاتاکن تانه تيڠݢي رنده, تق تاهو مڠاڽم ڤندن دسالهکن
 * Rumi: tak tahu menari dikatakan lantai jongkang-jongket, tak tahu menari dikatakan tanah tinggi rendah, tak tahu menganyam pandan disalahkan
 * Marathi: नाचता येइना अंगण वाकडे
 * Persian:
 * Dari: پهلوان که باخت میگه نیرو من تنگ بود
 * Polish:
 * Russian: bad dancer is impeded even by (his own) balls, не́ча на зе́ркало пеня́ть, ко́ли ро́жа крива́ don't blame the mirror if your mug is skewed, ма́стер глуп — нож туп if the worker is stupid, his knife is blunt
 * Scottish Gaelic: cha d'fhuair droch-bhuannaiche a-riamh deagh-chorran, cha d'fhuair droch-ràmhaich ràmh math a-riamh
 * Thai:
 * Urdu: