Robert Nesta Marley popularly known as Bob Marley was born on the 6th of February, 1945 in Nine Mile, Jamaica. He was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician. Bob Marley began his music career in 1963 with a band known as “The Wailers”.
Bob Marley was considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and song writing style. Bob Marley died of cancer on the 11th of May, 1981 at the University of Miami Hospital And Clinics, Miami, Florida, United States.
Below, we have compiled an array of famous Bob Marley quotes about love, freedom, life, money and happiness. These quotes captures the beliefs of this short lived Raggae music legend.
60 Bob Marley Quotes About Life, Love And Happiness
“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. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”– Bob Marley
“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
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”– Bob Marley
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t 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.– Bob Marley
“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
“Have no fear for atomic energy, ’cause none of them can stop the time.”– Bob Marley
“Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again.”– Bob Marley
“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
“The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?”– Bob Marley
“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
“And don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.”– Bob Marley
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”– Bob Marley
“You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.”– Bob Marley
“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.”– Bob Marley
“The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.”– Bob Marley
“I don’t stand for black man’s side, I don’t stand for white man’s side, I stand for God’s side.”– Bob Marley
“Some people say great God come from the sky take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”– Bob Marley
“Money can’t buy life.”– Bob Marley
“Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can’t refuse it what to be got to be.”– Bob Marley
“Some will hate you pretend they love you now then behind they try to eliminate you.”– Bob Marley
“If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.”– Bob Marley
“It’s your own conscience that is gonna remind you; that it’s your heart and nobody else’s that is gonna judge.”– Bob Marley
“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”– Bob Marley
“Today, people struggle to find what’s real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.”– Bob Marley
“You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time.”– Bob Marley
“Until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!”– Bob Marley
“Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.”– Bob Marley
“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.”– Bob Marley
“It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.” – Bob Marley
“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
“It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.”– Bob Marley
“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”– Bob Marley
“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.”– Bob Marley
“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
“Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.”– Bob Marley
“Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.”– Bob Marley
“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
“Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”– Bob Marley
“I know that I’m not perfect and that I don’t claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.”– Bob Marley
“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.”– Bob Marley
“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”– Bob Marley
“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.”– Bob Marley
“What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”– Bob Marley
“Man can’t do without God. Just like you’re thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can’t go without God.”– Bob Marley
“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
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” – Bob Marley
“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
“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
“My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.”– Bob Marley
“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.”– Bob Marley
“Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.”– Bob Marley
“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
“Your life is worth much more than gold.”– Bob Marley
“I have a BMW. But only because BMW stands for Bob Marley and The Wailers, and not because I need an expensive car.”– Bob Marley
“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. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah’s gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”– Bob Marley
“Don’t give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.”– Bob Marley
“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
“You just can’t live in that negative way….. make way for the positive day.”– Bob Marley
“Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don’t make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.” – Bob Marley
“She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?”– Bob Marley
20 Short Bob Marley Quotes
“Love the life you live, live the life you love.”– Bob Marley
“Put your vision to reality.”– Bob Marley
“Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.”– Bob Marley
“Truth is the light, so you never give up the fight.”– Bob Marley
“You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.”– Bob Marley
“Conquer the devils with a little thing called love.”– Bob Marley
“Love would never leave us alone.”– Bob Marley
“There will never be no love at all.”– Bob Marley
“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”– Bob Marley
“Judge not, before you judge yourself.”– Bob Marley
“If puss and dog can get together, why can’t we love one another?”– Bob Marley
“When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.”– Bob Marley
“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.”– Bob Marley
“I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.”– Bob Marley
“Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.” – Bob Marley
“I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.”– Bob Marley
“My future is righteousness.”– Bob Marley
“I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.”– Bob Marley
“In this great future, you can’t forget your past.” – Bob Marley
“When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”– Bob Marley