Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
Margot Asquith

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
John Tesh

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
Barry Pepper

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.
R. Z. Sheppard

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
Daniel Boone

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
Guy Johnson

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca