All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

- Janet Erskine Stuart

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

- Janet Erskine Stuart