Best Chameleon Quotes On Success In Life
These chameleon quotes will inspire you. Chameleon is a small slow-moving Old World lizard with a prehensile tail, long extensible tongue, protruding eyes that rotate independently, and a highly developed ability to change color.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging chameleon quotes, chameleon sayings, and chameleon proverbs.
Famous Chameleon Quotes
- “People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.” ~ Myles Munroe
- “Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.” ~ Learned Hand
- “For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.” ~ David Bowie
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“There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment – you can truly be yourself.” ~ Hope Solo
- “Everybody in life is a chameleon.” ~ Melanie Chisholm
- “I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.” ~ Oscar Isaac
- “Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable, and imperfect. When we don’t have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.” ~ Brené Brown
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“The chameleon Love can feed on the air” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I love life way too much and find fun in almost anything. I’m a chameleon.” ~ Kellan Lutz
- “I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.” ~ River Phoenix
- “We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.” ~ Mark Twain
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“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.” ~ Nicolas Chamfort
- “To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.” ~ Mark Nepo
- “Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.” ~ Boy George
- “To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.” ~ Giancarlo Esposito
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“I’m such a chameleon. I never get bored.” ~ Natalie Imbruglia
- “Even a chameleon needs the proper amount of suction.” ~ Craig Ferguson
- “It’s a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don’t like is predictable.” ~ Naomi Campbell
- “I became a chameleon. My color didn’t change. But I could change your perception of my color.” ~ Trevor Noah
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“It’s beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.” ~ Laura Carmichael
- “Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then the other. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly.” ~ Lobengula
- “I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.” ~ Lana Del Rey , Chameleon quotes personality
- “I’m comfortable wherever I am, and I can be anywhere and feel comfortable after three weeks. I adapt, and I’m like a chameleon. If a country doesn’t have Internet, then I get used to not having the Internet. I could basically live anywhere. I’m a nomad at heart. Nothing is more boring than monotony.” ~ Julie Delpy
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“The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisks; I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I’ll pluck it down.” ~ William Shakespeare , Chameleon quotes about colors
- “Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.” ~ Brie Larson
- “We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.” ~ John Locke
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“Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.” ~ Beth Moore
- “I’m like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don’t think I’ve even reached yet at all in this tournament, it’s really hard for anyone on the women’s tour to beat me.” ~ Serena Williams
- “A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.” ~ Marvin Mitchelson
- “I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity” ~ Frank Herbert
- “I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.” ~ David Bowie
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“I’ve always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don’t want to limit myself.” ~ Hayden Panettiere
- “Chameleons feed on light and air: Poet’s food is love and fame.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Compassion is a chameleon: it can wear the face of fear, anger, sadness, joy, or even dispassion, depending on what’s needed at the time. The compassionate Buddha has a smile in one eye and a tear in the other, and our Buddha mission is to lead people to true freedom, not to hold their hand and tell them that everything is going to be all right. In teaching, compassion means doing whatever needs to be done to get to the next phase.” ~ Gabrielle Roth
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“I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.” ~ David Bowie
- “I become a chameleon for wherever I am.” ~ Bob Saget
- “I’m a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that’s why you’re always gonna get passionate hooks, because I’m feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.” ~ Kid Cudi
- “[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don’t know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it’s an unrelieved hallucination, because you don’t know where you’re coming in and you don’t know where you’re going out. It ends, you’re going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don’t know.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
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“I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever’s going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.” ~ John Lennon
- “What a sight there is in that “smile!” it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.” ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
- “I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.” ~ Marisha Pessl
- “I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” ~ David Bowie
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“I’m a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.” ~ Philip Johnson
- “When you can’t draw chameleons and you can’t draw blenders, it’s a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.” ~ Stephan Pastis
- “My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don’t recognize.” ~ Alexandra Roach
- “The Chameleon’s face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn’t much of a looker himself.” ~ Will Cuppy
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“What shocks the virtuous philosopher, delights the chameleon poet.” ~ John Keats
- “Aiyyo, camouflage chameleon,
ninjas scalin’ your building,
No time to grab the gun,
I already got your wife and children” ~ RZA - “What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? … The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.” ~ Kevin Kelly
- “I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.” ~ Nick Carter
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“I’m a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family’s music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.” ~ Linda Ronstadt
- “What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon?” ~ Karen Marie Moning
- “Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors.” ~ Bill Maher
- “I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I’m just taking a different route right now. I’m a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.” ~ David Boreanaz
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“The whole chameleon thing about acting. That’s why I’m moving towards directing – it’s a much more healthy occupation.” ~ Andy Serkis
- “…the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.” ~ Chris Crutcher
- “Acting is what I love. I love being the chameleon, and you can’t do that if you have just one physical type.” ~ Alexander Ludwig
- “I’m like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It’s very slowed down here. I like it that way. I’m a guy that’s very reserved, quiet and shy myself.” ~ Kevin Durant
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“I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don’t notice me very easily. I never get recognized.” ~ Dana Delany
- “The reason I trained so hard in school was so that I could be versatile and play any character. With all these in my bag, I’m like a chameleon. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.” ~ Rutina Wesley
- “The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast – chameleon-like, it perpetually changes its color; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.” ~ David Harvey
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“And that’s how the Peacock saved the Chameleon” ~ Ally Carter
- “As a model, I didn’t have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn’t full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn’t a cover-girl type.” ~ Carmen Dell’Orefice
- “Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn’t be anonymous – what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.” ~ Sanjeev Bhaskar
Chameleon is a person who often changes his or her beliefs or behavior in order to please others or to succeed
