«كَلْبِ يْجُرُّوهْ لِلصِّيدْ مَا يِصْطَادْ»

Compulsion cannot manufacture genuine effort. A creature pulled toward a task against its own inclination will either fail to do it at all or go through the motions so half-heartedly that nothing worthwhile comes of it.

Applied to people, the saying holds that willingness matters more than pressure. Anyone pushed into work they have no desire for, whether a reluctant helper or a conscripted participant, should not be expected to deliver energetic or useful results.

Suitable when someone is being pressured into a job, role, or duty they plainly do not want, warning that coercion will not produce real results, or explaining afterward why reluctant work came out poor. Because it likens a person to a dog, it can sound dismissive about someone present.