Top 500 Play Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship – a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

352. “Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

353. “The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.”

— James Baldwin

354. “I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.”

— Cristiano Ronaldo

355. “The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.”

— Deepak Chopra

356. “Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it’s up to you to know with which ear you’ll listen.”

— Ray Bradbury

357. “I use Herbalife products on and off the field for energy and focus. That way I can play my best game.”

— Lionel Messi

358. “You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

359. “It is delightful to play the fool.”

— Horace

360. “Teamwork is neither “good” nor “desirable.” It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.”

— Peter F. Drucker

361. “G’bye, I’m going out to play!”

— Shel Silverstein

362. “Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving.”

— Mary Oliver

363. “Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.”

— Mason Cooley

364. “Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain’t no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.”

— Junot Díaz

365. “Where beams of imagination play, the memory’s soft figures melt away...”

— Alexander Pope

366. “There’s a reason Tony Stark makes fun of ‘Thor,’ and mentions ‘Shakespeare’ in the park in ‘The Avengers.’ It’s great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.”

— Joss Whedon

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367. “Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.”

— Julio Cortázar

368. “Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it’s never in the foreground.”

— Felix Baumgartner

369. “You gotta play the hand that’s dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I’ve played it.”

— James Brady

370. “Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner’s manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.”

— Oprah Winfrey

371. “Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come to read together and learn together. We should take our kids there more.”

— Barack Obama

372. “To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.”

— Paul McCartney

373. “And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.”

— Oscar Wilde

374. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

375. “Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.”

— Julia Cameron

376. “I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

377. “If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

— Aaron Copland

378. “The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”

— Margaret Fuller

379. “You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.”

— Miles Davis

380. “If you don’t play to win, why keep score?”

— Vern Law

381. “I always play women I would date.”

— Angelina Jolie

382. “In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.”

— Russell Baker

383. “Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God – what? perhaps a “world”?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

384. “Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

— Pablo Neruda

385. “Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much?”

— Ray Bradbury

386. “We’ll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19.”

— Pat Benatar

387. “I didn’t want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.”

— Dwayne Johnson

388. “If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don’t want that. I want to do everything I can to play basebal.”

— Miguel Cabrera

389. “Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.”

— Rumi

390. “The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.”

— Dorothy Day

391. “Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children.”

— Nelson Mandela

392. “You’re an idiot. You’ve screwed up every play we ever ran. You’re too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.”

— Michael Jordan

393. “God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.”

— Emily Dickinson

394. “You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.”

— Donald Trump

395. “You got to love to be able to play.”

— Louis Armstrong

396. “In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

397. “Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.”

— Pope Francis

398. “Every night I play as if my life depends on it.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

399. “I’m left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.”

— Dustin Diamond

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400. “Do what you really want to do. Don’t play their game! Don’t do what they want. Find your own way.”

— Johnny Depp