Quotes About Ambition

Littlefinger laughed aloud. "With gold and boys and promises, of course. Ser Lyn is a man of simple tastes, my sweetling. All he likes is gold and boys and killing.

the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground

How they loved to promise heads, these men who would be king.

George R.R. Martin

If I had wings, I would want to fly too,

Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?" That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.

Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.

George R.R. Martin

Joffrey is in my prayers as well," said Margaery. "I loved him dearly, though I never had the chance to know him." Liar, the queen thought. If you had loved him even for an instant, you would not have been in such unseemly haste to wed his brother. His crown was all you ever wanted. For

Dreams are what we have.

Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.

Aye." Malice gleamed in Maggy's yellow eyes. "Queen you shall be … until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.

her son upon his throne. When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.

What do I have? A life to live? Work to do? Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love? "You have nothing," finished Magister Illyrio, "but we can change that.

The Lannister woman is our queen, and her pride is said to grow with every passing year.

The hand of the king was the second-most powerful man in the Seven Kingdoms. He spoke with the king's voice, commanded the Kings army's, drafted the king's laws. At times he even sat upon the Iron Throne to dispense king's justice, when the king was absent, or sick, or otherwise indisposed. Robert was offering him a responsibility as large as the realm itself. It was the last thing in the world he wanted.

It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else." - Lord Baelish

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, 'Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?