🌟 — lines that shaped thinking, motivation, and pop culture during that decade:
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon (widely quoted throughout the 1980s)
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt (became iconic again in the ’80s)
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky (1980s sports icon)
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” — J.M. Power
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon (very popular in the ’80s)
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde (revived in 1980s self-growth culture)
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker