Quotes About Determination

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. 'I am a direwolf, and done with the wooden teeth.

He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Sometimes the storm winds blow so strong a man has no choice but to furl his sails.

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys) 'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices.

Noble words, but words were easy. Deeds were hard. - Brienne

Anyone can be killed." - Arya Stark

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

I must show no fear, no weakness, no doubt.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.

Just where do you think you are going, Arya?' the septa demanded. Arya glared at her. 'I have to go shoe a horse,' she said sweetly taking a brief satisfaction in the shock on the septa's face.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave,

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

He had chosen a hard life... or perhaps he should say that a hard life had been chosen for him

I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers." "Who was I supposed to play with?" "Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?" "Well enough to play." "But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.

A twisted spine condemned him to walk with a limp, but as he said famously, "I do not limp when I read, nor when I write.

George R.R. Martin

He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.

a few days ago she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spinds and back flips. "Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?" She nodded. "Tomorrow we're going to catch cats." "Cats." Ned sighed.

If? The word is when.

Can a man be brave when he is afraid?- Bran asked after a moment's thought. -"It's the only time he can be brave,"- his father said.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.