Answer:
I never was but always will be. No one ever saw me but everyone knows I exist. I give people the motivation to better themselves every day. What am I?
What moves without seeing and cries without eyes?
You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.
What travels from house to house and is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide but always stays outside?
What relies on columns but isn't a house, and asks for help but can't speak itself?
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.