Adversaries Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

— Michel de Montaigne

Expectations are an evil thing.

— Skylar Grey

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.

— Michael Piller

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

— Alan Loy McGinnis

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

— Edmund Burke

“Seeking to value ourselves, we look to others for assurance. If what we are doing, threatens them, they cannot give it. If what we…

— Julia Cameron

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with…

— Abraham Lincoln

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

— Kajol

Appeasing Wall Street is to be expected from the GOP who do little to hide their true intentions and their defense of the wealthiest…

— Luis Gutierrez

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

— Milan Kundera

I like expectations, with expectations, you have people coming at you from a place of doubt.

— Jerry Ferrara

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not…

— Samuel Johnson