Top 200 Bob Marley Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.”

— Bob Marley

152. “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

153. “The biggest man you’re ever going to see was once a baby.”

— Bob Marley

154. “If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.”

— Bob Marley

155. “Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.”

— Bob Marley

156. “Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”

— Bob Marley

157. “Tell the children the truth.”

— Bob Marley

158. “Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.”

— Bob Marley

159. “They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.”

— Bob Marley

160. “I shot the sheriff, but I didn’t shoot no deputy.”

— Bob Marley

161. “Most people think great god will come from the skies, 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

162. “Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.”

— Bob Marley

163. “Children are wonderful. It don’t take plenty y’know. Just a nice girl who don’t take birth control. Sexual intercourse is a lovely thing.”

— Bob Marley

164. “The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin.”

— Bob Marley

165. “Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day.”

— Bob Marley

166. “If you know what your life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.”

— Bob Marley

167. “It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.”

— Bob Marley

168. “Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?”

— Bob Marley

169. “When the cats away, the mice will play.”

— Bob Marley

170. “When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I’m a rainbow too.”

— Bob Marley

171. “Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you’re not ready for judgment.”

— Bob Marley

172. “I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin.”

— Bob Marley

173. “Dry your tears, have no fears.”

— Bob Marley

174. “Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.”

— Bob Marley

175. “They will always tell you that you can’t do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.”

— Bob Marley

176. “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let’s get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let’s get together and feel all right.”

— Bob Marley

177. “God, guide and protect us. When we’re wrong, please correct us.”

— Bob Marley

178. “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

179. “Don’t forget your history nor your destiny.”

— Bob Marley

180. “What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.”

— Bob Marley

181. “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

182. “Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we ’pon the same track. If we ’pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.”

— Bob Marley

183. “A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

— Bob Marley

184. “I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.”

— Bob Marley

185. “Judge not unless you judge yourself.”

— Bob Marley

186. “When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”

— Bob Marley

187. “You’re on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you’re going, so you have to just keep on going.”

— Bob Marley

188. “There comes a time as an artist, can’t follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.”

— Bob Marley

189. “What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.”

— Bob Marley

190. “Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.”

— Bob Marley

191. “Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!”

— Bob Marley

192. “How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.”

— Bob Marley

193. “Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard.”

— Bob Marley

194. “Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don’t let me down. Stephen, Money can’t buy you life.”

— Bob Marley

195. “We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man.”

— Bob Marley

196. “Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.”

— Bob Marley

197. “One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don’t jump in the water if you can’t swim...”

— Bob Marley

198. “So you think you’ve found the solution but it’s just another illusion.”

— Bob Marley

199. “Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.”

— Bob Marley

200. “Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.”

— Bob Marley