Bob Marley Quotes

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

One lifetime is not enough to live

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

And no matter what games they play
we got something they could never take away

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 ...

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

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

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

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

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

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

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

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

Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.

I handle fame by not being famous ... I'm not famous to me.

Tell the children the truth.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.

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

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

Dry your tears, have no fears.

The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.

They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love

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

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

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

What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.

Only Once In Your Life

Make way for the positive day.

There will never be no love at all.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.

Herb is the unification of mankind.

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

Man is a universe within himself.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

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

i don't have any

love the life you live.
live the life you love.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

The fittest of the fittest shall survive !

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

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

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.

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.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

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

He's not perfect. You are not either

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

you are not perfect

one love, one heart

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH

Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say

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

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.

Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?

How many rivers do we have to cross,
Before we can talk to the boss?

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

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

Me never believe in marriage that muchmarriage is a trap to control me; woman is a coward. Man strong.

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

My life anuh fi me alone ... My life a fi people ... Fi help plenty people ... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it

Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.

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

Love would never leave us alone

I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin

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

Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.

Live the life u love
love the life u live

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

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again

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

Whose the cap fit, let them where it.

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.

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

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.

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

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

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

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side

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

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Trust the universe and respekt your hair.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

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

tell me what you think it means.

Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you

Money can't buy you life

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.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'cause none of them can stop the time.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger.
Bob Marley (March 1981)