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118 Quotes on Love, Life, Strength, and Self-Acceptance to Inspire and Radiate Positivity

Explore Bob Marley's iconic quotes on love, life, strength, and self-acceptance. Be inspired to seize the beauty in each moment and radiate love and positivity. Let his transformative messages resonate with your soul.

Robert Nesta Marley, born in Nine Mile, Jamaica, was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. He is considered one of the pioneers of reggae music and gained international recognition for his fusion of reggae, ska, and rocksteady. Marley's music brought Jamaican music to the forefront of popular culture and made him a global symbol of Jamaican identity. He was also known for his advocacy for social reforms and support for the Rastafari movement. Despite surviving an assassination attempt in 1976 and battling cancer in his later years, Marley continued to create influential music until his death in 1981.

Marley started his musical career as part of the group The Wailers and later became known as Bob Marley and the Wailers. They released several successful albums including "Natty Dread" and "Rastaman Vibration". Marley achieved international fame with hits like "No Woman, No Cry" and "I Shot the Sheriff". He promoted unity among people through his music and incorporated elements of blues, soul, and British rock into his songs. Marley's legacy lives on through his best-selling album "Legend" and his influence on countless artists around the world. He received various accolades posthumously including induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and being named one of Rolling Stone's greatest artists of all time.

✵ 6. February 1945 – 11. May 1981  •  Other names Robert Nesta Marley
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Bob Marley Quotes

“Light up the darkness.”

Bob Marley

“One lifetime is not enough to live”

Bob Marley

“We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.”

Bob Marley

As recorded in Time Will Tell (1992), a documentary by Declan Lowney
Variant: We don't have education we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
Source: Bob Marley - Legend

“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

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

Bob Marley

As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&amp;feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand <br class="br">The people who are trying to make this world worse aren&#x27;t taking a day off. How can I?

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

Bob Marley

Running Away, from the album Kaya
Song lyrics

“Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.”

Bob Marley

I Shot The Sheriff, from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics

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

Bob Marley

“Don't give up the fight,
Stand up for your rights.”

Bob Marley

“Herb is the unification of mankind.”

Bob Marley

“until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask!”

Bob Marley

Source: Bob Marley Talking

“Don't forget your history nor your destiny”

Bob Marley

“Man is a universe within himself.”

Bob Marley

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

Bob Marley

“tell me what you think it means.”

Bob Marley

“Reggae is my heart ♥
reggae is my soul”

Bob Marley

“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

“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

Get Up, Stand Up (cowritten with Peter Tosh), from the album Burnin (1973)
Song lyrics

“Well, what we know
Is not what they tell us
We're not ignorant, I mean it,
And they just cannot touch us
Through the powers of the Most-High
We keep on surfacin'
Thru the powers of the Most-High
We keep on survivin'.”

Bob Marley

“In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend…
I'm gonna be your friend.
In high tide or in low tide,
I'll be by your side…
I'll be by your side.”

Bob Marley

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”

Bob Marley

“a pot a cook but the food na kno”

Bob Marley

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.”

Bob Marley

Redemption Song; the song was inspired by a speech by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in October 1937, published in his Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11:
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.
Uprising (1979)

“Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.”

Bob Marley

“In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!”

Bob Marley

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”

Bob Marley

Could You Be Loved
Uprising (1979)

“Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry”

Bob Marley

Disputed, No Woman, No Cry, from the album Natty Dread (1974)

“We JAH people can make it work.”

Bob Marley

Work
Uprising (1979)

“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”

Bob Marley

Forever Loving Jah
Uprising (1979)

“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

As quoted in Rolling Stone's The Immortals (2004) "Bob"

“In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.”

Bob Marley

Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
Song lyrics

“Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.”

Bob Marley

Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
Song lyrics

“The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.”

Bob Marley

Song lyrics, Judge Not (single, 1961)

“Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.”

Bob Marley

Zion Train
Uprising (1979)

“Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.”

Bob Marley

Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978)
Song lyrics

“Keep calm and chive on.”

Bob Marley

As quoted in a 1974 interview with Lester Bangs

“Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God I gotta' take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can't drift (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)

Take it easy, easy skanking
Got to take it easy, easy skanking.”

Bob Marley

Easy Skanking, from the album Kaya (1978) · Video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlqB13iJu2o <br class="br">Song lyrics