He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken. François de La Rochefoucauld
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. Jane Welsh Carlyle
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them. Emil Cioran
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. François de La Rochefoucauld
Approval is overrated... Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without. Gregory Maguire
I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it. Phillip Phillips