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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

  1. You can show people the way to do things, but you can't force them to act.


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It's said that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

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“You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” he told Talking Points Memo.

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“If you won’t listen, that’s on you. You have potential to do so much more, go so much further. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink, right?”

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As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

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But as the old saying from my home state of Wyoming goes: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”

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