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Quotes About Opportunism

Self-seeker has often many supporters on physical ground and on social media, but all just opportunity-seekers so called cheaters wearing the mask of fans,followers, friends and even family relatives and members.
~ Anuj Somany
Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.
~ Mark McKinnon
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
~ William Congreve
Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.
~ Bari Weiss
She sorted out the young men. Tanner's opportunism amused but did not specifically attract her; the blond Nordsen seemed too simple; dark-haired Al-atpay had a kind of obstinacy with which she felt no compassion: Mir-Ahnin's bitterness hinted an inner darkness she did not wish to lighten, although he made the biggest outward play for her attention.
~ Anne McCaffrey
But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists lie reflexively, blame others for failures, and are unapologetic cowards.
~ Sebastian Junger
Self-serving leaders can literally get people killed. But in any society, leaders who aren't willing to make sacrifices aren't leaders, they're opportunists, and opportunists rarely have the common good in mind. They're easy to spot, though: opportunists live reflexively, blame others for failure, and are unapologetic cowards.
~ Sebastian Junger
crushes the adventurous, the brave, the sensitive, and encourages the timid, the opportunist and time-serving, the sneak and the bully. It surrounds itself with
~ Shashi Tharoor
I'm not so naïve as to think your wanting to work together has anything to do with getting a fair shake and everything to do with how many rungs you can hike up the DEA ladder in that streetwalker skirt. (Terri)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
~ John Grisham
he. 'I have no doubt that some of them are honest enough by their own lights, that they are motivated by what they see as a genuine desire to change the political system. But on the other hand, I know as a fact that many of them are not, that they are merely cynical opportunists with an eye to their own gain.
~ John Hall
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
~ John Heywood
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.
~ Elinor Ostrom
en política, negocios y sexo, traicionar es sólo cuestión de fechas.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sus compatriotas son refractarios a demasiadas cosas. Ni el fascismo ni el comunismo calan de verdad en ellos; he visto allí más oportunistas que gente con ideas firmes... Sólo el anarquismo encaja con su carácter, y eso los hace imprevisibles y peligrosos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Learn from the cock the following four things: getting up at the right time, fighting bitterly, making your brothers flee and usurping their share also!
~ B.K. Chaturvedi
When I first came in the game, I had a bunch of homies that rapped that was hanging around me just because I was getting the rap attention, and they felt they could feed off of that.
~ Freddie Gibbs
That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.
~ Limahl
In order to make any kind of living, you cannot afford to say no. If anything comes up, you've got to take it; you've got to grab it with both hands because security is really not there.
~ Tom Goodman-Hill
Jaya Prada was thrown out of TDP by Chandrababu Naidu which is why she came to Samajwadi Party. She knows even less of Rampur than she does of Andhra Pradesh.
~ Asrani
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.
~ Sigmund Freud
But if Nasser's gift to the Egyptians was their sense of pride, Mubarak's curse is to have created a cultural climate where the only rewarded character traits are shameless opportunism and lack of dignity.
~ John R. Bradley
The wise man consents to everything, for he identifies himself with nothing. An opportunist without desires.
~ Emil M. Cioran