You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
Dear all,
is there any translation that is not too far from the English expression You an lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink? it's pretty self-explaining: you can give someone (or possibly something) the opportunity to do something, but eventually the choice to actually do it belongs to him/her only (even if you are his/her boss/parent/teacher/any figure of authority;
There is probably no verbatim translation (or is there), anything remotely connected to this idea would do, thanks in advance!