Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. He is widely known as one of the pioneers of reggae. He was famous for his distinctive vocal style and became a global symbol of Jamaican music and culture and identity. Apart from music, he was quite famous for his outspoken support for democratic social reforms. Here are 60 Bob Marley Quotes On truth, opportunities, fear and life.
1. When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can’t take the peace. -Bob Marley
2. You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved. -Bob Marley
3. When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet. -Bob Marley
4. Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. -Bob Marley
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5. They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive! -Bob Marley
6. Truth is the light, so you never give up the fight. -Bob Marley
7. When one door is closed, many more is open. -Bob Marley
8. Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me. -Bob Marley
9. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I? -Bob Marley
10. Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out. -Bob Marley
11. 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. -Bob Marley
12. I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer. -Bob Marley
13. Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again. -Bob Marley
14. My feet is my only carriage. -Bob Marley
15. Love the life you live, live the life you love. -Bob Marley
16. I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through. -Bob Marley
17. Have no fear for atomic energy, ’cause none of them can stop the time. -Bob Marley
18. Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow. -Bob Marley
19. My future is righteousness. -Bob Marley
20. Love would never leave us alone. -Bob Marley
21. In this great future, you can’t forget your past. —No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread -Bob Marley
22. Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life. -Bob Marley
23. Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes. -Bob Marley
24. 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. -Bob Marley
25. Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold. -Bob Marley
26. I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. -Bob Marley
27. One love, one heart, Let’s get together and feel alright. -Bob Marley
28. 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. -Bob Marley
29. 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. -Bob Marley
30. If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say. -Bob Marley
31. 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. -Bob Marley
32. 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. -Bob Marley
33. 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. -Bob Marley
34. I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through. -Bob Marley
35. 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. -Bob Marley
36. 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. -Bob Marley
37. 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. -Bob Marley
38. 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. -Bob Marley
39. Me is a common sense man. That means 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. -Bob Marley
40. Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality. -Bob Marley
41. What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind. -Bob Marley
42. If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already. -Bob Marley
43. I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. -Bob Marley
44. 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. -Bob Marley
45. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. -Bob Marley
46. Man is a universe within himself. -Bob Marley
47. 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. -Bob Marley
48. None but ourselves can free our minds. -Bob Marley
49. Tell the children the truth. -Bob Marley
50. If puss and dog can get together, why can’t we love one another? -Bob Marley
51. 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. -Bob Marley
52. Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living? -Bob Marley
53. Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. -Bob Marley
54. 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. -Bob Marley
55. 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! -Bob Marley
56. Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. -Bob Marley
57. 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. -Bob Marley
58. Conquer the devils with a little thing called love. -Bob Marley
59. Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet. -Bob Marley
60. It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail. -Bob Marley
