<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/vicjohnson.jpg" alt="Vic Johnson motivational speaker and author" width="115" height="156" /><em>&#8220;Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.&#8221; &#8211; As a Man Thinketh</em> </p>
<p>For many years I have carried around a poem called Don&#8217;t Quit. One of the lines says, &#8220;So stick to the fight when you&#8217;re hardest hit; It&#8217;s when things seem worst that you mustn&#8217;t quit.&#8221; In our darkest hour it&#8217;s hard to see the end of our circumstance. All we can think of is our conditions worsening. But it&#8217;s usually at this time that our greatest growth can occur if we&#8217;ll see the moment as a growth opportunity &#8212; if we&#8217;ll see it as a time to learn how to control our thoughts toward an ideal that we cherish. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/07/dont-quit-by-vic-johnson/" title="Permanent Link: Don&#8217;t Quit By Vic Johnson" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1147,"date":"2012-07-23T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2023-10-20T11:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:53:12","slug":"dont-quit-by-vic-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/dont-quit-by-vic-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Quit By Vic Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/vicjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"Vic Johnson motivational speaker and author\" width=\"115\" height=\"156\" \/><em>&#8220;Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without.&#8221; &#8211; As a Man Thinketh<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>For many years I have carried around a poem called Don&#8217;t Quit. One of the lines says, &#8220;So stick to the fight when you&#8217;re hardest hit; It&#8217;s when things seem worst that you mustn&#8217;t quit.&#8221;\u009d In our darkest hour it&#8217;s hard to see the end of our circumstance. All we can think of is our conditions worsening. But it&#8217;s usually at this time that our greatest growth can occur if we&#8217;ll see the moment as a growth opportunity &#8212; if we&#8217;ll see it as a time to learn how to control our thoughts toward an ideal that we cherish. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/07\/dont-quit-by-vic-johnson\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Don&#8217;t Quit By Vic Johnson\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}