Popular Bob Marley's Quotes And Sayings

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

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

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

And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is.

What does rasta mean? Righteousness.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

My future is righteousness.

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

The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we're fussin' n fighting like we ain't supposed to be.

So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

We know where we're going cause we know where we're from.

It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

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.

We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!

Your life is worth much more than gold.

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 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.

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

The heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

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.

Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!

I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

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

If you wanna hear what the people are saying, you can hear what the Rastaman saying.

The bad people trying to make the world worse never take a day off, so why should I?

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.

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

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

Excuse me while I light my spliff, Good God I gotta take a lift, From reality I just cant drift, That's why I'm staying with this riff

until the end of the world,all whys will be answered,but now,you can only ask!

One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim.

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Sometimes you have to fight with music.

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.

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right.

Me can't be prejudice. Me can't me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can't be righteous.

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

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.

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

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

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

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.

Every man should have the right to choose their destiny.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?

Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob.

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.

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

There will never be no love at all.

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.

Reggae is my heart ♥ reggae is my soul

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

One lifetime is not enough to live

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

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.

The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right.

I pledged to work for righteousness. God's given me inspiration. God's the boss, he tell me what to do.

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

Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall 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.

Trust the universe and respekt your hair.

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.

One bright morning when my work is over I will fly away home.

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

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

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

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness, everyone doin' and they're doing their best!

Rise and take your stance once again

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.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

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.

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... 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.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.

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

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

In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side.

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