Bob Marley quotes:

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!

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.

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

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

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.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My future is righteousness.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Money can't buy life.

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.

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

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

You have to be someone.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

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

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.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war

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

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

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.

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.

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

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

My feet is my only carriage.

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

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

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

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

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

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.

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

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

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

Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.

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

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.

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!

From the very first time I rest my eyes on you, girl, My heart says follow through.

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

The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.

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

Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.

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

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

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

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

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.

Children are wonderful. It don't take plenty y'know. Just a nice girl who don't take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.

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

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

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.

Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

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

There will never be no love at all.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

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

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

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

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

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.

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

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.

Man is a universe within himself.

Tell the children the truth.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

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...

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

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 womanâ??s body is her smile.

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

Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.

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

Overcome the devils with a thing called love.