Bob Marley Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Money can’t buy life.

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.

My future is righteousness.

Man is a universe within himself.

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

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

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

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

Make way for the positive day.

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

Why drink and drive if I can smoke and fly?

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.

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.

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

One love, one heart . . . Let’s get together and feel all right

Tell the children the truth.

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You have to be someone.

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.

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

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.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere.

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.

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.