Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.”

— Jim Rohn

52. “How can we embrace rest and play if we’ve tied our self-worth to what we produce?”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes

53. “Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”

— Frank Zappa

Also featured in: Sarcastic Quotes, Guitar Quotes

54. “A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.”

— Sigmund Freud

55. “With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Passion Quotes, Sufism Quotes

56. “When you have momentum going, play the momentum.”

— Donald Trump

Also featured in: Momentum Quotes

57. “Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Sports Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Basketball Quotes

58. “I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.”

— Pelé

Also featured in: Football Quotes

59. “Don’t do anything that isn’t play.”

— Joseph Campbell

60. “To play without passion is inexcusable!”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

61. “God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God – to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference.”

— Zig Ziglar

62. “Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.”

— Tupac Shakur

63. “The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.”

— Margaret Chan

64. “I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

65. “I don’t play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing.”

— Eric Cantona

66. “History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”

— Voltaire

67. “I can’t play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.”

— John Lennon

68. “I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.”

— Rihanna

69. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Strong Women Quotes

70. “If you play on possession, you don’t have to defend, because there’s only one ball.”

— Johan Cruijff

71. “Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth’s fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.”

— Kofi Annan

72. “Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.”

— Albert Einstein

73. “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Healing Quotes

74. “Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you’re still around to play the next day.”

— Warren Buffett

75. “Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

— Mark Twain

76. “To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.”

— Albert Einstein

77. “If you want to play, you gotta pay.”

— Stephen King

78. “The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

79. “Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.”

— Voltaire

80. “Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don’t let them drag you into the mud.”

— Richard Branson

81. “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

82. “My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.”

— Miles Davis

83. “Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

84. “Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Joy Quotes, Good Day Quotes

85. “I know my role and I play it well.”

— Lil Wayne

86. “Talk with your daughters, Play with your sons. You need to be a better friend to them than anyone else. This society offers lots of evil friends. Before they make those kinds of friends, they need to find their best friend in you.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

87. “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.”

— Miles Davis

88. “Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.”

— Karl Marx

89. “At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.”

— Jim Rohn

90. “Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You’re going to do well at it.”

— Warren Buffett

91. “My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well.”

— Roger Federer

92. “Beyond ideas, there’s a field. Will you meet me there?”

— Rumi

93. “I’m excited about what the future holds. I’m not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, “What are you going to do?” I don’t know. I kind of love that not knowing.”

— Jennifer Aniston

94. “With foxes we must play the fox.”

— Thomas Fuller

95. “I’m ready to lose my life if that’s what Portugal needs to win. I’ll play vs USA even if I play with one leg.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

96. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”

— Babe Ruth

97. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

98. “Business is business, no child’s play.”

— Swami Vivekananda

99. “Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.”

— Dr. Seuss

100. “Play is really the work of childhood.”

— Fred Rogers