comment: They get visibility because the person who says them has often earned some degree of credibility or fame through their own success.
  They’re popular because there are wide swaths of weak-willed people who need a pick me up from someone who inspires them and then parrot/share them to clutch to a fraction of that through emulation.
  It’s a byproduct of a society that idolizes successful people and believes they too can be like that with some smarmy quote and some feel good energy.