Good people are found not changed. They can change themselves, but you can't change them. You want good people, you have to find them. If you want motivated people, you have to find them, not motivate them.
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.
Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.
For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
Change of habit cannot alter Nature.
Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
A leapord never changes his stripes.
While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.
You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.
Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
A thing's innate disposition does not lie.
People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
In reality, people are who they are and they'll never really change.
We're not inherently anything but human.
Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
Dress a goat in silk and it's still a goat.
The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.
