Wednesday, 15 June 2016

NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

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:

 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.

Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.

Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”

Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.


Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.

Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.

Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.

Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23.

Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24.


Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record.


Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity.


Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world.


J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter.


Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.


Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind.


Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest.

Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.


Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics.


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.


Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.


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.


John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States.

Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.


Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"


Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.


Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.


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.


Colonel Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise.


Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US.


Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President ~Pablo.

3 comments:

  1. This is very encouraging. Don't give up. Keep pushing. 'Fighting'.

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  2. This is very encouraging. Don't give up. Keep pushing. 'Fighting'.

    ReplyDelete