Jones can't seem to do anything I ask him to. He'll never get anywhere; he that cannot obey cannot command.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
he that cannot obey cannot command — Cf. SENECA De Ira II. xiv. nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi, no one can rule unless he can also be ruled. a 1500 tr. T. à Kempis’ De Imitatione Christi (1893) xxiv. No man surely comaun dith but he that hath lerned to obeye. 1581 G. PETTIE tr … Proverbs new dictionary
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