Motivation is crucial to anything we do in life, sometimes it is helpful to take look at inspirational thought and wisdom by others who share our skill sets. So below I have contrived a list of quotes for your enjoyment.
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
-Alan Turing
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-Bill Gates
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
-Bjarne Stroustrup
Programming is an explanatory activity.
-Roman Harper
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
-Scott Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
-Henry Adams
Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.
-John Carmack