“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
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 Carlson became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comaneci 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 McCartney 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) Isaac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalise 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 McDonald Franchise and took it to
unprecedented levels.
38) Dr Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chelsey "Sully" Sullen Berger 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 Lelan at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
I hope one day we will be listed among them.
“So prepare, so that someday your chances shall come.”
