The motivational quotes can be bs in a practical sense, but they are not bs in a literal sense: the sentences have meaning in and of themselves. In this case,

The motivational quotes can be bs in a practical sense, but they are not bs in a literal sense: the sentences have meaning in and of themselves. In this case, the rewording of the example you cited actually grants meaning to the sentence that it doesn't have but that we accidentally interpret it as having because the sentence is quite close to a meaningful sentence