Take yourself as you are, whole, and do not try to live by one part alone and starve the other.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Resolve, Perseverance, Endurance
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Excellence
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Decisions, Opportunity, Secrets of Success
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Being Ourselves
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
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