Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

from Twelfth Night 

William Shakespeare 

偉大さを強いられる人もいる

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Vincent Van Gogh 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men afraid of the light.

Plato 

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Roussecau