This collection of Yoda quotes ring with truth and wisdom, which is why the words of this fictional character continue to be popular today.
The first to rise to poularity was when in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda tells Luke Skywalker that “there is no try – only do or do not.” This simple statement has profound implications for anyone trying to achieve a goal.
Yoda’s words remind us that in order to be creative, we must take action and not just talk about our ideas. We must be willing to experiment and take risks. And most importantly, we must not give up when things don’t go as planned.
No matter who you are, you are sure to find these Yoda quotes inspiring.
- “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.” – Yoda
- “Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.” — Yoda
- “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda
- “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.” – Yoda
- “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.” – Yoda
- “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” — Yoda
- “Always pass on what you have learned.” — Yoda“
- Feel the force!”– Yoda
- “Patience you must have my young Padawan.” — Yoda
- “Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.” – Yoda
- “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.” – Yoda
- “Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
- “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the light, the future is.” – Yoda
- “Great warrior. Wars not make one great.” – Yoda
- “You will find only what you bring in.” – Yoda
- “To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.” – Yoda
- “On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain.” – Yoda
- “Control, control, you must learn control!” – Yoda
- “In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side.” – Yoda
- “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
- “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” — Yoda
- “To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.” – Yoda
- “Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. 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. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.” — Yoda
- “Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.” – Yoda
- “Do not assume anything Obi-Wan. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.“ – Yoda
- “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.” – Yoda“You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.” — Yoda
- “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
- “Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall.” – Yoda
- “When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.” – Yoda
- “You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.” – Yoda
- “Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.” – Yoda
- “Your path you must decide.” — Yoda
- “Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.” – Yoda
- “No longer certain, that one ever does win a war, I am. For in fighting the battles, the bloodshed, already lost we have. Yet, open to us a path remains. That unknown to the Sith is. Through this path, victory we may yet find. Not victory in the Clone Wars, but victory for all time.” — Yoda
- “If no mistake you have made, losing you are. A different game you should play.” – Yoda
- “Happens to every guy sometimes this does” — Yoda
- “Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.” ― Yoda
- “Do or do not. There is no try.”
- “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
- “Named must be your fear before banish it you can.”
- “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
- “The greatest teacher, failure is.”
- “Pass on what you have learned.”
- “Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will.” — Yoda
- “Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they.”
- “Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”
- “Pain, suffering, and death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain.”
- “Listening to music sometimes, a window opens and happy you are.”
- “Always more questions than answers, there are.”
- “Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself.”
- “No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.”“
- Arduous is discovering oneself, going on the greatest exploration it is.”
- “Doubt in battle, there cannot be. Belief, there must be.”
- “If in anger you answer, then in shame you dwell.”
- “Age more than a count of heartbeats is. Age is how many mistakes you have made.”
- “A decision is yours alone to make. Yet remember you should that you make it also for the silent ones who stand at your shoulder.”
- “A way there always is.”
- “Each choice, the branch of a tree is: What looked like a decision, is after only a pattern of growth.”
- “The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know.”
- “Honor life by living. Killing honors only death: only the dark side.”
- “Your past can ruin your future, if you allow it.”
- “When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.”
- “A challenge lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger.”
- “Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquirement wisdom is, not knowledge wisdom is, not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom.”
- Silence is not simply calmness or quietude. Over all words and thoughts it implies transcendence. A state of beyond, a state of pervasive peace, it denotes. Yoda
- “So certain were you. Go back and closer you must look.”
- “So great life is, to finish it no way there is. The more you would enter into it, the vaster would be the possibilities that open their doors. Yoda
- A great warrior he is, wars do not make one great. Yoda
- A Jedi always sought to avoid a conflict.
- Infinitely more ways there are to reach a goal, Yoda had said many times. Try them all, you should. Yoda
- If routine you count on, disappointed your hopes will be. Yoda
- Never step in the same river twice can you. Each time the river hurries on. Each time he that steps has changed. Yoda
- When you look back, lose your place on the path, you do. Yoda
- Adventure. Heh! Excitement. Heh! A Jedi craves not these things. Yoda
- Make the decision, make another. Remake one past, you cannot. Yoda
- Better things than fighting, should a Jedi Master be doing! Seeking wisdom. Finding balance. Yoda
- Of the moment, be. In the moment, live. The art of remaining in the present, learn. Neither the past nor the future exists. Yoda
- To live totally fear allows you not, hold you back it always does. Yoda
- Like reflections in the mirror thoughts are, clouds passing in the sky, but not the clouds the sky is. Desires, memories, imagination, they all come and go. Yoda
- When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint. Yoda
- With time. With time all are healed. Yoda
- When your path is unsure, better to wait, it is. Yoda
- By chance alone we do not live our lives. Yoda
- Make a mission great, excitement does not. Yoda
- Mind what you have learned. Save you it can. Yoda
- The dark side. Always it speaks to us, from our pain. Our grief. It connects our pain to all pain, our hurt to all hurt. Yoda
- True mastery of a skill was only the beginning step to understanding it. Yoda
- The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you. Yoda
- Close your mouth and open your ears, you must. Then hear what your true heart is seeking, you will. Yoda
- Concentrate on what I know is true while I wait for the mud to settle and the water to become clear. Yoda
- The best security lies in creating a society that nobody wishes to attack. Yoda
- Of your ability, sure you are. Yet between sureness and pride, a small step it is. Yoda
- Too long sorrow makes a stone of the heart. Yoda
- If in anger you answer, then in shame you dwell. Yoda
- Easy it becomes to be false in big things, if false you are in small ones. Yoda
- Frivolous, speculation is, when patience will reveal all. YodaLearn not to teach, you must. As surely as you must guide, you must also be led. Yoda
- Through enjoyment life grows. Joy is the sutra. Be joyful and grateful – whatsoever you have.
- The whole question is this: in the world, doing what are you? A participant in it, are you? Or a watcher? Yoda
- Even the blind seed grows to the light. Yoda
- Here now is joy. And to be joyful only one thing one needs, and that is: be joyful. Nothing else, no other requirement. Yoda
- Poetic you become when in love you are. In love continuously are those people who are called poets. Yoda
- In a vacuum man exists not, like an island man exists not. Yoda
- Deeper than your mind is your heart. Love is deeper than logic. Yoda
- Share! Give! and given to you more will be. Be a miser, do not give, and less will be given to you, because need it you do not. Yoda
- This courage to enter into a new adventure – make you more alive it will. And to people who are more alive, happiness happens. Yoda
- At the very source of your being you should be, where these three things you can feel: goodness, beauty and truth. Yoda
- Whatsoever you have done is nothing in comparison to that which you can do. And nothing is whatsoever you can do in comparison with that which you are. Yoda
- Impatient never be. YodaDelicate flower truth is, but also the most precious treasure in life – because liberation it brings, freedom it brings. Yoda
- Your world you create, too, yourself you create. Things thoughts become.Burning inside you jealousy is, and poisoning you is anger; inside you greed is growing. And clouding your consciousness all these together are – destroying your individuality, your essential existence. Yoda
- To defeat an enemy, you do not have to kill. Defeat the rage that burns in him, and he is your enemy no longer. Rage the true enemy is. Yoda
- Learn one thing in life you have to – not to cling. Yoda“You will know good from bad when you are at peace and passive.” – 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
- “Accept the challenge I do, Your Highness. Arrive by nightfall, I will.” – Yoda
- “Yes. Yes. A flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are. Even the older, more experienced ones.” – Yoda
- Hmm. Darker the coming storm grows. I fear the dark cloud of the Sith shrouds us all.” -Yoda
- “Wrong? Hmm. A long time, fought I did. Consumed by fear, I was, though see it I did not.” -Yoda
- “Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.” -Yoda
- “Like fire across the galaxy, the Clone Wars spread. In league with the wicked Count Dooku, more and more planets slip. Against this threat, upon the Jedi Knights falls the duty to lead the newly formed army of the Republic. And as the heat of war grows, so, too, grows the prowess of one most gifted students of the Force.” -Yoda
- “Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the dark side of the Force.” -Yoda
- “Reckless he is. Matters are worse.” -Yoda
- “Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.” -Yoda
- “I have many children, as you seek you may find that this is the last one till he must die before he must reach the becoming of mankind. Many men have failed but I have surpassed their expectation of being a Jedi master.” -Yoda
- “Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future… the past. Old friends long gone.” -Yoda
- “Not if anything to say about it I have.”Yoda“
- Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.” -Yoda
- “No! Unfortunate that you rushed to face him… that incomplete was your training. That… not ready for the burden were you.”
- “No! Unfortunate that you rushed to face him… that incomplete was your training. That… not ready for the burden were you.” -Yoda
- “Dangerous and disturbing this puzzle is. Only a Jedi could have erased those files. But who, and why, harder to answer. Meditate on this I will.” -Yoda
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