Quotes from 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.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

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

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Wake up and live

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

Judge not unless you judge yourself

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

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Love would never leave us alone

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too.

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.

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

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

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

When you smoke (ganja) you don't want to war.

My life anuh fi me alone... My life a fi people... Fi help plenty people... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it