Opportunist Quotes

“Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“These politicians and party members are unforgiving. They put you on a pedestal as long as you help them win. But if you fail, if you are the reason behind their defeat, they will drag you down in no time.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit

“I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Hard work works harder than luck!”
― Germany Kent, You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life

“Cheating only thrills those who cannot see the beauty in faithfulness.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.”
― J. Kenner, Claim Me

“There's a difference between an opportunist, and someone who seizes an opportunity. One selfishly harvests the fruits of another's labor, the other strategically helps plant the seeds. The latter can be an asset, the former will always be a leech. That climb to the top is already back breaking enough! Don't carry opportunists up your ladder of success!”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“If you never try, you'll never know. You are what you manifest.”
― Germany Kent

“Subtle difference between a hero and an opportunist is not where you stand, but its timing. Standing up against injustice when it suits is convenience, not heroism”
― Faisal Khosa

“Not everyone that helped you actually meant well for you, some of these people are an opportunist that hides the truth and keeps the options for the achievement of the purpose.”
― Deborah Nwakwesili.

“Opportunists are manipulators who take the advantage of an opportunity and use it to reach their goals with no regard to ethics and morals.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“For while libertarians have too often been opportunists who lose sight of or under-cut their ultimate goal, some have erred in the opposite direction: fearing and condemning any advances toward the idea as necessarily selling out the goal itself. The tragedy is that these sectarians, in condemning all advances that fall short of the goal, serve to render vain and futile the cherished goal itself.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto

“An opportunist hides the truth and keeps the options for the achievement of the purpose.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It would be difficult to find a man still on the early side of his thirties who had acquired wealth and power at the speed that Tom Severin had. He'd started as a mechanical engineer designing engines, then progressed to railway bridges, and had eventually built his own railway line, all with the apparent ease of a boy playing leapfrog. Severin could be generous and considerate, but his better qualities were unanchored by anything resembling a conscience.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“The royalists paroled from the Channel Islands who chose Virginia, Philip Ludwell and Francis Lovelace among them, became Sir William Berkeley's courtiers. They never lost the habit, so appropriate to exiles, of pledging loyalty to the king but looking out for themselves.”
― Stephen Saunders Webb, 1676: The End of American Independence

“An opportunist runs away and disappears if it fails to gain its targeted opportunity.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Severin can be callous in pursuit of a goal. He has an extraordinary mind, it's no exaggeration to call him a genius. However, such ability often comes at the expense of-" He hesitated, searching for the right word.
"Decency?" West suggested dryly.
Looking rueful, Devon nodded. "When dealing with Severin, one must never forget that above all, he's an opportunist. His brain is so busy trying to engineer a certain outcome that he doesn't bother to consider anyone's feelings, including his own. That being said, there have been times when I've seen Severin go to great lengths to help other people. He's not all bad." He shrugged. "It seems a pity to give up the friendship entirely.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“When someone wants to help you, love you, does not let you, waiting; it does not seek excuses and does not hide and seek, but comes to you with a clear-cut and obvious decision. If that is not, you should consider that person as a useless, worthless, untrustful and an opportunist.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Recently I met with the director of the London Ironstone railway," he said. For Kathleen's benefit, he explained, "It's a private company, owned by a friend. Tom Severin."
'We're in the same London club," West added.
Devon viewed the map critically before drawing a parallel line. "Severin wants to reduce distance on London Ironstone's existing Portsmouth route. He's also planning to relay the entire sixty-mile line, start to finish, with heavier rails to accommodate faster trains."
"Can he afford such a project?" West asked.
"He's already secured one million pounds."
West uttered a wordless exclamation.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Cold-Hearted Rake

“I chose and adopt such a notion and way that matches my feelings and character, not the opportunity, to become as an opportunist.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When someone wants to help you, love you, does not let you, waiting; it does not seek excuses and does not hide and seek, but comes to you with a clear-cut and obvious decision. If that is not, you should consider that person as a useless, worthless, untrustful, and an opportunist.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Society is full of people who are not easily impressed. That leaves opportunists at a disadvantage. They don't know how to market "us" or market to "us" when money doesn't matter.”
― Carlos Wallace

“An opportunist hides the truth and keeps the options for the achievement of the purpose”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Everyone is an opportunist to some degree.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“An opportunist reads the problem like a short story and writes the solution like a novel.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“If you glory in the gory situations of things around you while others are struggling to cope with the challenges imposed by the deficiency, don't be surprised when you begin to share in the aftermath of the circumstances of your conscious and unconscious decisions. What goes around will surely comes around, someday!”
― Olawale Daniel

“Golddigger' usually refers to a lousy opportunist who manipulates others for selfish interest. However, when digging for gold, you'll realize that there's no lousy manipulation in digging. Gold is not found on the surface. It's buried d-e-e-p down. You gat to dig the digging.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“What if the nose really did get longer with each lie told? I wonder if people would stop telling lies or if they would lie about why their nose is 12' long.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“The opportunist doesn’t believe that bad things always happen ‘to’ them. Rather, they believe that they often happen ‘for’ them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough