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YOU’RE NOT TOO YOUNG TO BE GREAT!


 No matter how old you are now. You

are never too young or too old for

success or going after what you want.

Here’s a short list of people who

accomplished great things at different

ages: _Pablo

1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19

months, became deaf and blind. But

that didn’t stop her. She was the first

deaf and blind person to earn a

Bachelor of Arts degree.

2) Mozart was already competent on

keyboard and violin; he composed from

the age of 5.

3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she

became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”

4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote

the diary of Anne Frank.

5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess

Grandmaster at the age of 13.

6) Nadia Comâneci was a gymnast from

Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0

and won three gold medals at the

Olympics at age 14.

7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally

recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in

November 1950, at the age of 15.

8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17

years old when he won the world cup

in 1958 with Brazil.

9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.

10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul

Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had

their first concert in 1961.

11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4

gold medals in Berlin 1936.

12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by

age 23​

13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ

Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age

24

14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he

broke the 4 minute mile record

15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he

wrote the theory of relativity

16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when

he won the tour de France

17) Michelangelo created two of the

greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta”

by age 28

18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had

created one of the largest empires of

the ancient world

19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when

she finished the first manuscript of

Harry Potter

20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old

when she became the first woman to

fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

21) Oprah was 32 when she started her

talk show, which has become the

highest-rated program of its kind

22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he

became the first man to reach Mount

Everest

23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when

he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.”

24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when

she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in

Physics

25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32)

and Wilbur (36) invented and built the

world’s first successful airplane and

making the first controlled, powered

and sustained heavier-than-air human

flight

26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he

died virtually unknown, yet his

paintings today are worth millions.

27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he

became the first man to set foot on the

moon.

28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, and

49 years old when he wrote

“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when

he discovered the Americas

30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she

refused to obey the bus driver’s order

to give up her seat to make room for a

white passenger

31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old

when he became President of the

United States

32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford

T came out.

33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she

wrote “The Hunger Games”

34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old

when his book On the Origin of Species

came out.

35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old

when he painted the Mona Lisa.

36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he

became president.

37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought

the McDonalds Franchise and took it to

unprecedented levels.

38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote

“The Cat in the Hat”.

40) Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III was

57 years old when he successfully

ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the

Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155

passengers aboard the aircraft survived

41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61

when he started the KFC Franchise

42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord

of the Ring books came out

43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he

became President of the US

44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed,

shackled, towed 70 rowboats

45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he

became President

46)Gbadebo Dahunsi was 23 when he became an author and

a motivator right from undergraduate level.

47) …………???.

That space is for you. What are you doing with your life?