Star Wars
Yoda is the 900-year-old Jedi Master who trains both Luke Skywalker and, generations earlier, the Jedi Council's younglings. His lines land because of how he says them: the famous back-to-front syntax turns plain advice into something you remember. Below are his real quotes, each with the film and scene it comes from.
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
“That is why you fail.”
“Size matters not. Judge me by my size, do you?”
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
“Wars not make one great.”
“Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.”
“A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”
“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
“When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not.”
“Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall. That is the way of things, the way of the Force.”
“Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware: anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they.”
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
“Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.”
“Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.”
“Begun, the Clone War has.”
“Twisted by the dark side, young Skywalker has become.”
“The greatest teacher, failure is.”
“We are what they grow beyond. That is the true burden of all masters.”