Top 200 Bob Marley Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’ll give you my phone number. When you worry, call me. I’ll make you happy.”

— Bob Marley

52. “Football is Freedom, a whole universe.”

— Bob Marley

53. “Experimentation is the key to ‘lively up’ the art.”

— Bob Marley

54. “Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!”

— Bob Marley

55. “Nothing is wrong if it makes you happy.”

— Bob Marley

56. “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.”

— Bob Marley

57. “Love hard when there is love to be had.”

— Bob Marley

58. “You can’t find the right roads when the streets are paved.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

60. “So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”

— Bob Marley

61. “Music is the only thing that doesn’t hurt when it hits you.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

63. “Don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief, and jealousy.”

— Bob Marley

64. “There will never be any love at all.”

— Bob Marley

65. “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

66. “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

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

— Bob Marley

68. “If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere.”

— Bob Marley

69. “The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”

— Bob Marley

70. “My feet is my only carriage.”

— Bob Marley

71. “Lively Up Yourself.”

— Bob Marley

72. “The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”

— Bob Marley

73. “Make way for the positive day.”

— Bob Marley

74. “Football is a part of me. When I play, the world wakes up around me.”

— Bob Marley

75. “My future is righteousness.”

— Bob Marley

76. “Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You.”

— Bob Marley

77. “We don’t need no trouble! What we need is love!”

— Bob Marley

78. “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

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

— Bob Marley

80. “Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.”

— Bob Marley

81. “Sometimes you have to fight with music.”

— Bob Marley

82. “I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.”

— Bob Marley

83. “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.”

— Bob Marley

84. “What does rasta mean? Righteousness.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

86. “I don’t know what happiness is. I don’t know what sweet caress is. Still, I’m always laughing like a clown.”

— Bob Marley

87. “Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

90. “We know where we’re going cause we know where we’re from.”

— Bob Marley

91. “The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.”

— Bob Marley

92. “Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

94. “The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

96. “You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.”

— Bob Marley

97. “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

98. “My favorite herb – lamb’s bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.”

— Bob Marley

99. “We JAH people can make it work.”

— Bob Marley

100. “Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.”

— Bob Marley