The line comes from Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, released in 1980, when Yoda is training Luke Skywalker on Dagobah and Luke doubts he can lift his ship from the swamp. Yoda answers with the short, absolute lesson that trying is not an option, only doing or not doing. The quote quickly became one of the franchise's most repeated lines, shared in motivational posts, edits and reaction videos long after the film. Its simplicity keeps it useful whenever a creator wants to call out hesitation without a long explanation.