72 Yoda Quotes Full of Wisdom and Life Lessons
As far as famous Star Wars characters go, Yoda is a fan favorite who appears across all three Star Wars trilogies. He also pops up in several animated series and is a major player in the books. A wise Jedi Master who was part of the Jedi Order until its destruction by the Empire, the green alien makes his first appearance in Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.
In the movie, he is 900 years old and living on the planet Dagobah where he tries unsuccessfully to train Luke Skywalker in the ways of the Force. He continues to pop up throughout the film series, offering inspiring Yoda quotes and nuggets of advice to help guide Skywalker and several other major characters.
One of the most distinctive things about Yoda, apart from his size and ability to use the Force, is the way he talks. He speaks in an object-subject-verb manner, making him anastophic. This character trait adds a little personality to Yoda and makes for some interesting phrases he utters when on-screen.
As Master Yoda is one of the oldest characters in the movies, he has a lot of knowledge to share with those who will listen. While it often sounds like he is talking in riddles, Yoda is always offering up wisdom to not only Skywalker, but other Jedi such as Anakin Skywalker, Mace Windu, and Obi Wan Kenobi.
He might be small in stature, but Grand Jedi master Yoda is one smart cookie who is also kind and caring, even if his methods are a little strange. A great warrior with an even greater mind, Yoda speaks nothing but the truth, with many of his sayings applicable to everyday life.
To show how awesome he is, here are some of the best Yoda quotes from the Star Wars movies and shows he appears in. Some you can apply to real life while others are just great quotes that are one of the reasons why the Star Wars franchise is still so popular. May the Force be with you.
72 Yoda Quotes Full of Wisdom and Life Lessons
1. “No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
2. “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
3. “The greatest teacher, failure is.”
4. “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
5. “Patience you must have my young Padawan.”
6. “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.”
7. “You fail because you don’t believe.”
8. “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
9. “Always pass on what you have learned.”
10. “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.”
11. “Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.”
12. “Control, control, you must learn control!”
13. “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”
14. “You will find only what you bring in.”
15. “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”
16. “Oh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great.”
17. “A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force.”
18. “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the light, the future is.”
19. “Your path you must decide.”
20. “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 jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”
21. “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
22. “To be Jedi is to face the truth, and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.”
23. “Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong.”
24. “I can’t teach him. The boy has no patience.”
25. “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.”
26. “Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter.”
27. “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.”
28. “Train yourself to let go of everything you are afraid to lose.”
29. “Always two there are. No more. No less. A master and an apprentice.”
30. “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.”
31. “In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side.”
32. “Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they.”
33. “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”
34. “Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”
35. “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
36. “To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.”
37. “Do not assume anything, Obi-Wan. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.”
38. “Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”
39. “Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.”
40. “The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know.”
41. “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.”
42. “So certain were you. Go back, and closer, you must look.”
43. “Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will.”
44. “Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquirement wisdom is; not knowledge wisdom is, and not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom.”
45. “Much you learn, you still my old Padawan. This is just the beginning.”
46. “Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall.”
47. “When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.”
48. “Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.”
49. “If no mistake you have made, losing you are. A different game you should play.”
50. “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.”
51. “Yes, afraid. Hmm, surprised are you? A challenge lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger.”
52. “Happens to every guy sometimes this does”
53. “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 jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”
54. “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.”
55. “Pass on what you have learned.”
56. “Darker the coming storm grows. I fear the dark cloud of sit shrouds us all.”
57. “If you end your training now. If you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.”
58. “Your weapons, you will not need them.”
59. “To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not.”
60. “A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time ago have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing.”
61. “Mind what you have learned. Save you; it can.”
62. “That is the way of things. The way of the Force.”
63. “Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.”
64. “Pain, suffering, and death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain.”
65. “Listening to music sometimes, a window opens and happy you are.”
66. “No greater gift there is, than a generous heart.”
67. “If in anger you answer, then in shame you dwell.”
68. “Age more than a count of heartbeats is. Age is how many mistakes you have made.”
69. “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.”
70. “Each choice, the branch of a tree is: What looked like a decision, is after only a pattern of growth.”
71. “The more we learn, the more we discover how much we do not know.”
72. “May the Force be with you.”
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