Yogi Berra Quotes

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

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

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Without respect of my private will, you will give me that counsel you think best.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

To advise is not to compel.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

I am ready to do everything for the people, but nothing under compulsion by the people.

Above all, we know that although Americans can be led to make great sacrifices, they do not like to be driven.

It is never easy to cleanly distinguish freedom and duty, consent and bondage, choice and compulsion.

I can't force myself to do anything I don't wanna do, really. I never have.

I fight because I want to not because I have to.

I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

No, I get techs because I want to; I don't care. I'm not getting techs for no reason. It happens.

You cannot make a person want to fight.

Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.