Quotes About Ambition

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

No Queen has clean hands.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

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

You win or you die.

The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

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

Cuando se juega al juego de tronos, solo se puede ganar o morir.

When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

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.

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

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

A un sapo le salen alas y ya cree que es un dragón.

The Queen Who Never Was; what did Viserys ever have that she did not? A little sausage? Is that all it takes to be a king? Let Mushroom rule, then. My sausage is thrice the size of his.

A toad grows wings and thinks he's a bloody dragon.

If only you could take that final step, you'd see farther than ll the rest. You'd be alone with nothing but blue sky above you.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game." "What … what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones.

He might as well wish for another thousand men, and maybe a dragon or three.

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.

Three treasons you will know;. One for blood, one for gold, and one for love.

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.