What is "self-respect"

Usage examples of "self-respect".

BLS at last, seen his parents regain their self-respect, despite the oppressive grip of the Committee of Public Safety and State Security.

Nothing like Club Bauhaus, which was a meat locker but had the self-respect to keep the lighting low.

Not, therefore, excited by vanity, but sustained by self-respect, by an overpowering feeling that he owed it to himself and the opinions he held, to show to the world that they had not been lightly adopted and should not be lightly laid aside, Bentinck rose, long past the noon of night, at the end of this memorable debate, to undertake an office from which the most successful and most experienced rhetoricians of Parliament would have shrunk with intuitive discretion.

He had self-respect on a scale Helmholtz had never seen him exhibit before.

I had forgotten Maud, forgotten my own impoverished condition, forgotten my self-respect, and was madly, desperately, absurdly in love with this beautiful and mysterious creature.

He had come to recount an achievement which had plumed and reappareled a limping self-respect and he had expected congratulation.

Really, Adela, you must remember that a girl of your age has to be mindful of her self-respect.

This would destroy her self-respect, and help prevent her from aspiring to worship Aten again.

He walked to the door, closed it noiselessly as he went out, and in a few minutes was tramping through the rain out of sight of White Gables, going nowhere, seeing nothing, his soul shaken in the fierce effort to kill and trample the raving impulse that had seized him in the presence of her shame, that clamored to him to drag himself before her feet, to pray for pardon, to pour out wordshe knew not what words, but he knew that they had been straining at his lipsto wreck his self-respect for ever, and hopelessly defeat even the crazy purpose that had almost possessed him, by drowning her wretchedness in disgust, by babbling with the tongue of infatuation to a woman with a husband not yet buried, to a woman who loved another man.

I quietly replied that I owed my cure not to the weakness of my passion but to my self-respect.

That a woman who was to Beaton the embodiment of artificiality should intimate, however innocently--the innocence made it all the worse--that he was less honest than Wetmore, whom he knew to be so much more honest, was something that must be retaliated somewhere before his self-respect could be restored.

Pittsburgh waterfront is its value for recreation and as an element of civic comeliness and self-respect.

The young man might have known that my self-respect would forbid my following such a piece of advice.

The two rather self-centered and somewhat irrational archimages, intent on and vastly enamored of their private war—though they were undoubtedly the cunningest and wisest sorcerers ever to exist in the World of Nehwon—were entirely adamant against the very sound four arguments Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser advanced in their self-defense: one, that they had stuck to the magician-set rules by first making certain to get the Mask of Death (or as much as they could of it) out of the Shadowland at whatever personal cost to themselves and diminishment of their self-respect.

The two rather self-centered and somewhat irrational archimages, intent on and vastly enamored of their private war -- though they were undoubtedly the cunningest and wisest sorcerers ever to exist in the World of Nehwon -- were entirely adamant against the very sound four arguments Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser advanced in their self-defense: one, that they had stuck to the magician-set rules by first making certain to get the Mask of Death (or as much as they could of it) out of the Shadowland at whatever personal cost to themselves and diminishment of their self-respect.