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?