Opportunist Quotes

“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”

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

“Please do not think that I am accusing socialists of insincerity or that I wish to hold them up to scorn either as bad democrats or as unprincipled schemers and opportunists. I fully believe, in spite of the childish Machiavellism in which some of their prophets indulge, that fundamentally most of them always have been as sincere in their professions as any other men. Besides, I do not believe in insincerity in social strife, for people always come to think what they want to think and what they incessantly profess. As regards democracy, socialist parties are presumably no more opportunists than are any others; they simply espouse democracy if, as, and when it serves their ideals and interests and not otherwise. Lest readers should be shocked and think so immoral a view worthy only of the most callous of political practitioners, ...”

“Your memory has always been given to opportunistic revision.”

“Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,”

“Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.”

“If you are opportunist, then you are already one step closer to achieve your target!”

“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”

“An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.”

“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”