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Our motive must be…


Our motive must be sure, our concentration total.

Siri Tachi, Jedi Apprentice – The Dangerous Rescue




You must be sure of…


You must be sure of what you want and believe… Sometimes the way will be confused, but allow yourself the time to understand yourself.

Qui-Gon Jinn; Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




The bond between Master and Padawan…


Each of us is still an individual. We will have worries and concerns that are unique to us. We cannot expect to always understand each other. The commitment (to each other) is what is important.

Obi-Wan Kenobi,  Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




Visions can…


Visions can lead us astray as well as guide us.

Yoda, Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




You must open your mind to…


You must open your mind to other opinions.

Mace Windu; Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




We sit here on the Council…


We sit here on the Council because our vision is a wider one than that of any individual Jedi.

Mace Windu,  Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




It takes…


It takes energy to amass wealth.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




Even in the middle of…


Even in the middle of a mission, don’t neglect to taste the pastries.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Ties That Bind




Courage was something…


Courage was something a Jedi did not think about. It was simply the will to do right. It was the discipline to move forward.

Qui-Gon Jinn; Jedi Apprentice – The Death of Hope




In pursuit…


Even in pursuit, your focus should be a wide circle, taking in everything around you.
Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Death of Hope




See the balance in the galaxy…


Grief was part of life, and Jedi saw it more than most. Qui-Gon knew the forms it could take, how it could twist and spiral into rage or revenge or dead numbness. There had been times when sorrow had been so much a part of what he saw that it became the only thing he [...]




Easy it becomes…


Easy it becomes to be false in big things, if false you are in small ones.

Yoda; Jedi Apprentice – The Death of Hope




It twisted the mind and crippled duty into…


No revenge, only justice. That creed was written on the heart of every Jedi. Revenge led to the dark side. It twisted the mind and crippled duty into something full of ego and darkness.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Apprentice – The Call to Vengeance




Frustration must be controlled…


Frustration must be controlled. There was always a way.

Qui-Gon Jinn; Jedi Apprentice – The Call to Vengeance




Use your time…


Use your time. You’ll find one day that you have too little of it.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Call to Vengeance




Lies come easier than…


Lies come easier than the truth, and at a lower cost.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Only Witness




The loved ones we have lost…


The loved ones we have lost are always with us.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Apprentice – The Only Witness




Be honest in your feelings…


Be honest in your feelings, for they are the surest conduit to knowledge, both of the self and of the Force.

Anoon Bondara; Darth Maul – Shadow Hunter




We are creatures of emotion…


There is no emotion; there is peace.
This did not mean one should repress one’s emotions.
One of the few things that all intelligent species in the galaxy share is the ability to have feelings. We are creatures of emotion, and to deny those emotions is profoundly un-healthy. But one can feel anger, for example, without being [...]




There is no passion; there is serenity…


There is no passion; there is serenity.
At first she had thought this was merely a restating of the code’s first precept. But Master Bondara had ex-plained the difference. Passion, in this context, meant obsession, compulsion, an overweening fixation on something or someone. And serenity was not merely a synonym for peace; rather, it was the [...]




When you are one with the Force…


When you are one with the Force, you are as nothing. A calm in the storm, a pivot to the lever. Chaos may rage around you, yet you are still.

Anoon Bondara; Darth Maul – Shadow Hunter




Better than training…


Better than training, the Force is. More than experience or speed it gives.

Yoda; Darth Maul – Shadow Hunter




It does not matter how fast you…


It does not matter how fast you are if you miss the target. It is the one who hits the most who will have the victory.

Luminara Unduli, Medstar – Battle Surgeons




One can fail at a…


One can fail at a task but still learn the lesson.

Luminara Unduli; Medstar – Battle Surgeons




The story of the old man’s river crossing…


A Jedi does not put limits on herself, but there are limits, and you must find them, and understand how to deal with them.
Have you ever heard the story of the old man’s river crossing?”
“I do not recall it.”
“At the bank of a wide river on this world, long before it was as it is [...]




Living with the knowledge that you had…


Killing somebody was easy — you could do it with a single swipe of your lightsaber. But living with the knowledge that you had killed somebody would change you forever.

Mace Windu, Medstar – Battle Surgeons




Killing was not a thing you did lightly…


Killing was not a thing you did lightly, not if you had any kind of compassion, or even minimally decent moral and ethical codes. Sometimes, to protect the innocent, or one’s own life, justice and survival demanded a Jedi strike with enough power to lay an attacker low. But the fact that it was necessary [...]




Because you could do a thing did not mean…


The Force allowed you to be a powerful fighter, but it also leavened your impulse to do violence. When you knew what you could do with your lightsaber, knew how deadly you were, it gave you pause. Because you could do a thing did not mean that you should.

Barriss Offee; Medstar – Battle Surgeons




Jedi were trained to deal with…


Jedi were trained to deal with conflict, not to go looking for it when there was no compelling reason to do so.

Barriss Offee; Medstar – Battle Surgeons




Jedi talk when we…


We talk when we have something to say — not simply to hear our own voices.

Barris Offee; Medstar – Battle Surgeons




The Force was not something to…


To use the Force against an opponent when you were in no real danger was wrong. She had been taught so all her life. The Force was not something to spend like a token in a sweets shop simply because you could. Neither was it solely a weapon.

Barriss Offee, Medstar – Battle Surgeons




The dark side is always at hand…


The dark side is always at hand, Padawan. It is no farther away than a heartbeat, an eye-blink, side by side with the bright side of the Force, separated by no more than a hair. It waits to snare the unwary, wearing a thousand disguises.

Luminara Unduli, Medstar – Battle Surgeons




Vagueness leads to…


Vagueness leads to misunderstandings – and misunderstandings have a terrible way of fostering tragedy.

Admiral Babo, Legacy of the Force – Inferno




Never react…


Never react, only act.

Jaina Solo, Legacy of the Force – Inferno




The ultimate answer for power…


The ultimate answer for power is skill.

Mace Windu; Shatterpoint




It is in the darkest night that…


It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest.

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint




A fundamental principle of combat…


A fundamental principle of combat: Use what you’re given. How you fight depends on whom you fight.

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint




There are questions…


There are questions to which we can never have answers; we can only be answers.

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint




Despair is the herald of…


Despair is the herald of the dark side.

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint




Symbols are…


Symbols are slippery.

Mace Windu, Shatterpoint





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