Bob Marley Quotes

My future is righteousness

If people want to live, let them live. If they want to die, let them die. If they want to sing, let them sing. If they want to dance, let them dance

You're running and you're running, and you're running away, but you can't run away from yourself

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

Love the life you live. Live the life you love

Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun

As a man sow, shall he reap

Wake up and live now

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet

Every man thinketh his burden is the heaviest

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

Could you be loved and be loved

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

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.

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

We refuse to be what you wanted us to be; we are what we are, that’s the way it’s going to be

Don't trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes

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

None of them can stop the time

Tell the children the truth

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

One love, one heart, let's get together and feel all right

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

None but ourselves can free our minds

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

None of us are free until all of us are free

Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost along the way

They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive

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.

If puss and dog can get together, why can't we love one another

My music is against the system, the society not treating people right

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

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

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things, things that bring sadness and misery and so on. Right things are what bring happiness, the things that bring love

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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

Preacherman don’t tell me, heaven is under the earth. I know you don’t know what life is really worth

While you busy making plans, life is what happens to you

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

Rastafari is not a religion, it’s a way of life

Every little thing is gonna be alright

None but ourselves can free our minds

So much trouble in the world, all you got to do: give a little

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

Overcome the devils with a thing called love

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

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

So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you

None of them can stop the time

Redemption songs are songs of freedom

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality

My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me, my own security then me nuh want it. My life is for people

Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right

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

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind

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

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny

In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty

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

Man to man is so unjust, children, you don't know who to trust

Is this love that I’m feelin’?

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe

Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, make you want to move your dancing feet

You can fool some people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time

Them belly full but we hungry, a hungry mob is an angry mob

They don't want to see us live together; all they want us to do is keep on killing one another

None of my songs are about politics, they're all about love

If you listen carefully you’ll hear the music. Music feels in the heart, not in the ears

The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you point your fingers someone else is judging you

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

Judge not, before you judge yourself

No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor will we bow

Africa unite for the benefit of your people

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow

Light up the darkness

If you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth

I know I'm not perfect and I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers, make sure your hands are clean

We got to fulfill the book

Life is worth much more than gold

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.

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

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

If you get down and quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say

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

He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day

You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved

Just can't live that negative way... make way for the positive day

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet

Put your vision to reality, yeah

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

In this great future, you can't forget your past

Music is my life and it will never die

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.

When music hits you, you feel no pain

If you get down and you quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say

If you are white and you are wrong, then you are wrong; if you are black and you are wrong, you are 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

One love, one heart, one destiny

Man is a universe within himself

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 your hands are clean