William Faulkner Quotes

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Every choice you make has an end result.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

I win when it counts.

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

What we do right now, today, matters.

What happens next is up to you.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

My actions speak louder than my words.

The end is important in all things.

What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?

If anything matters, then everything matters.

you never know which thing you do is going to turn out to be important. I'm sure we've all done very small things that had very great impact and very big things that didn't make any difference. So, create the means that best reflect the ends we want. Try to make each moment authentic, and you'll get to an authentic end.

I want to do something that matters.