Top 200 Bob Marley Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”

— Bob Marley

102. “I’m gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion.”

— Bob Marley

103. “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

104. “When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.”

— Bob Marley

105. “I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.”

— Bob Marley

106. “Me can’t be prejudice. Me can’t me no think of life that way. Because, me figure if you prejudice, that mean you have a hate. If you have a hate inside of you, you can’t be righteous.”

— Bob Marley

107. “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

108. “It takes a revolution, to create a solution.”

— Bob Marley

109. “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

110. “It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.”

— Bob Marley

111. “The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.”

— Bob Marley

112. “The fittest of the fittest shall survive !”

— Bob Marley

113. “The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I’ve been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they’ve got to turn me loose.”

— Bob Marley

114. “Don’t let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We’ve got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you’re thinking is not right!”

— Bob Marley

115. “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.”

— Bob Marley

116. “You can’t run away from yourself.”

— Bob Marley

117. “Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What’s the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.”

— Bob Marley

118. “Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.”

— Bob Marley

119. “Your life is worth much more than gold.”

— Bob Marley

120. “Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again.”

— Bob Marley

121. “Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet.”

— Bob Marley

122. “The people that are making this world worse don’t take a day off, how can I?”

— Bob Marley

123. “In this bright future you can’t forget your past.”

— Bob Marley

124. “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

125. “Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.”

— Bob Marley

126. “One bright morning when my work is over I will fly away home.”

— Bob Marley

127. “When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb – it’s you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.”

— Bob Marley

128. “You just can’t live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it’s a new day...”

— Bob Marley

129. “Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!”

— Bob Marley

130. “He who feels it, knows it more.”

— Bob Marley

131. “Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.”

— Bob Marley

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

— Bob Marley

133. “Me can’t tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision.”

— Bob Marley

134. “My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That’s way me is.”

— Bob Marley

135. “You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.”

— Bob Marley

136. “Whose the cap fit, let them where it.”

— Bob Marley

137. “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war.”

— Bob Marley

138. “Could you be loved and be loved?”

— Bob Marley

139. “I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.”

— Bob Marley

140. “Every need got an ego to feed.”

— Bob Marley

141. “Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.”

— Bob Marley

142. “This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.”

— Bob Marley

143. “Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.”

— Bob Marley

144. “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

145. “Rise and take your stance once again.”

— Bob Marley

146. “Trust the universe and respekt your hair.”

— Bob Marley

147. “I don’t have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life.”

— Bob Marley

148. “Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die, don’t ask me why !”

— Bob Marley

149. “Only Once In Your Life.”

— Bob Marley

150. “Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don’t make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.”

— Bob Marley