Everyone wants to become a better person. The difficult part is not wanting to be better, it is whether a leopard can change its spots or not and getting motivated to expand the list of positive attributes. You can have all the desire in the world to change and become a better person but when it comes down to doing it, it is often a different story.
A leopard cannot change its spots just as a tiger cannot change its stripes. I believe they are quite contented as they are. One cannot change one’s essential and basic nature. This metaphoric expression originated in an ancient Greek proverb that appears in Jeremiah 13:23 "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil."
Which brings us back to the original question: can a leopard change its spots? No, the only spot the leopard can change is its position! Anyway, it is not the leopard's spots that one needs to worry about… it’s the jaws and teeth.
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