The Most Famous Yoda Quote (There is no try)
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda
All the other Yoda Quotes
“A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away…to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Always with you what cannot be done. Hear you nothing that I say?…You must unlearn what you have learned. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Decide you must how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could, but you will destroy all for which they have fought and suffered.”
“Your path you must decide.”
– Yoda, from Star Wars Rebels, “Path of the Jedi”
“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”
– Yoda, from Revenge of the Sith
“Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
– Yoda, from The Phantom Menace
“Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path forever will it dominate your destiny.”
– Yoda, from Return of the Jedi
“The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun, the Clone War has.”
– Yoda
“There’s no doubt the mysterious warrior was a Sith.
– Yoda
Always two, there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
But which one was destroyed, the master or the apprentice?”
“I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend… at last, the Jedi are no more.”
– Yoda, from Palpatine and Yoda
“Not if anything to say about it, I have! […] At an end your rule is, and not short enough it was.”

“The history of items, does the Force permit Vos to understand. The history of a soul, does the Force permit me to understand.”
– Yoda
“That is why you fail.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquirement wisdom is, not knowledge wisdom is, not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom.”
– Yoda
“In The End, Cowards Are Those Who Follow The Dark Side.”
– Yoda, The Clone Wars
“To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.”
– Yoda, The Clone Wars
“To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.”
– Yoda
“Patience you must have my young Padawan.”
– Yoda
“Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.”
– Yoda, Revenge of the Sith
“The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the light, the future is.“
– Yoda, Attack of the Clones
“You will know good from the bad when you are at peace and passive.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.”
-Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“A different game you should play.“
– Yoda
“For My Ally Is The Force. And A Powerful Ally It Is.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Do not assume anything Obi-Wan. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.“
– Yoda, Attack of the Clones
“Much to learn you still have my old padawan. This is just the beginning.“
– Yoda, Attack of the Clones
“A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.“
– Yoda
You are reckless.
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“You think Yoda stops teaching, just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is. Yoda teaches like drunkards drink, like killers kill.”
– Yoda
“If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.”
– Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back
“Secret, shall I tell you? Grand Master of Jedi Order am I. Won this job in a raffle I did, think you? ‘How did you know, how did you know, Master Yoda?’ Master Yoda knows these things. His job it is.”
– Yoda
“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.”
– Yoda, Attack of the Clones
That is why you fail.
– Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
“Hmm. To a dark place this line of thought will carry us. Great care we must take.”
– Yoda, Revenge of the Sith
“Around the survivors a perimeter create.”
– Yoda, Attack of the Clones
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Excellent article! Being a huge Star Wars fan myself, I can’t help but notice your recent series of articles on the characters and their quotes – great job!
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A good selection of the greatest Jedi mentor of all times!
nice
Thanks, Misha! May the Force be with you ?
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