Quotes About Leadership

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Kings are falling like leaves this autumn.

For just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.

Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

No Queen has clean hands.

Our maester chuckled at me and told us that Prince Rhaegar was certain to defeat this rebel. That was when Stark said, 'In this world only winter is certain. We may lose our heads, it's true . . . but what if we should prevail?' My father sent him on his way with his head still on his shoulders. 'If you lose,' he told Lord Eddard, 'you were never here.'" "No more than I was," said Davos Seaworth.

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Cuando se juega al juego de tronos sólo se puede ganar o morir. No hay puntos intermedios. Cersei Lannister

Kings rise and fall, Dunk thought, and cows and smallfolk go about their business.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

If war were arithmetic, then the mathematicians would rule the world. (Lord Petyr Baelish)

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

I can't command you to be brave, but I can command you to hide your fears.

Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.

A child sees an obstacle, and his first thought is to run around it or knock it down. A lord must learn that sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot.

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.

If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink

Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.

How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? A thousand eyes and one.