Janet Erskine Stuart (1857–1914,) also known as Mother Janet Stuart, was a Roman Catholic nun and educator. Her father, The Rev the Hon Andrew Godfrey Stuart, a son of Earl Castle Stewart, was the Rector of Cottesmore and she was the youngest of his thirteenth children. Her mother, his second wife, was Mary Penelope Noel, a relative of the Earl of Gainsborough.
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All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Being Ourselves
Take yourself as you are, whole, and do not try to live by one part alone and starve the other.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Secrets of Success, Opportunity, Decisions
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, Endurance, Perseverance
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
—Janet Erskine Stuart
Topics: Excellence
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