No matter how old you are now, you are never too young or too old for doing something meaningful and significant with your life. 

Here’s a short list of people who accomplished some amazing things at different ages of their life:

  • 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.”
  • Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
  • 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.
  • John Lennon was 20 years and Paul McCartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
  • 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.
  • Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28.
  • Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world.
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
  • Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
  • Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
  • Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas.
  • 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.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
  • Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
  • Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
  • Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
  • Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise.
  • J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out.
  • Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US.
  • Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President.