Bob Marley Quotes

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

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

"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!"

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

"Every man got a right to decide his own destiny."

"Money can't buy life."

"Possession make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality."

"Man is a universe within himself."

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

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

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny."

"Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

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

"Who are you to judge me and the life that I live?"

"Tell the children the truth."

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

"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight."

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

"Life is one big road with lots of signs."

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

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."

"Love would never leave us alone."

"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."

"My future is righteousness."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The winds that sometimes take something we love are the same that bring us something we learn to love."

"Is there a place for the hopeless sinner, who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?"

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

"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."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds."

"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war."

"How many rivers do we have to cross before we can talk to the boss?"

"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."

"Truth is the light, so you never give up the fight."

"Don't forget your history nor your destiny."

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

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

"Conquer the devils with a little thing called love."

"Some will hate you, pretend they love you now, then behind they try to eliminate you."

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

"The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you."

"Judge not, before you judge yourself."