NO EXCUSE!

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 (against the odds) great things at different ages…

1) Helen Keller became deaf and blind at the age of 19. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree;

2) Mozart was already competent on the keyboard and violin when he started composing at 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 Comăneci a Romanian gymnast 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 became a soccer superstar at 17 when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil;

9) Elvis Presly was a Superstar by age 19;

10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in1961;

11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin in 1936;

12) Beethoven was a Piano virtuoso by age 23;

13) Issac Newton at 24 wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica;

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 for the Harry Potter series;

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 (highest Mountain in the world);

23) Martin Luther King Jr was 34 When he did the speech “I have a dream”;

24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics in  1903;

25) The Wright brothers, Orville (was 32 ) & Wilbur (was 36) when they invented & built the world's first successful airplane successfully making the first controlled, powered & sustained heavier-than-air human flight;

26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died and 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 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn';

29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas;

30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey a 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 a 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, '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 United States;

44) Jack Lalane at age 70, handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats;

45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became the first black president of post-apartheid South Africa!

Don't quit yet. You still can make it, if you will!