Bob Marley Quotations

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow neither can be bought or sold

Overcome the demons with a thing called love.

When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the pace

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you've never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

He's not perfect. You aren't either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.

Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God.

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

Be humble because until the sun with all its grandeur, let the moon shine.

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.

The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

I'll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I'll make you happy.

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.

You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day...

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Don't gain the world and lose your...

Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good.

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

Don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy.

The people that are making this world worse don't take a day off, how can I?

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you’re not ready for judgment.

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?

The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

It's the music. Your heart is in your ears.