Quotes About Ambition

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Me, I only try. I'm not one like Moses, or Solon—or, or—Lycurgus.

If I try for something less I may in the end attain something more

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

I don't want to have a dozen sons," she had told him, appalled. "I want to have adventures" ~Asha Greyjoy

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but refuse. They cling to the realm, or love, or the gods…illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. But they'll never know this. Not until it's too late.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

A crown should not sit easy on the head.

The Iron Throne will go to the man who has the strength to seize it.

I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it.

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

Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

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.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.