Self-respect Sentence Examples

Often immaturity rises from a lack of self-respect or insecurity.

No person or relationship will give you more love, compassion, and self-respect than you can give yourself.

Friendships helped build self-respect, confidence and a positive self-image.

Overweight kids are often teased more by their peers resulting in a poor self-image and low self-respect.

Care centers focus on dignity, self-respect and comprehensive nursing care.

They are encouraged to develop self-respect, consideration for others and to think about the impact of their behavior on those around them.

But at the crowning moment of trial there are those who assert their belief that the woman who on her way to the field of Corrichie had uttered her wish to be a man, that she might know all the hardship and all the enjoyment of a soldier's life, riding forth "in jack and knapscull" - the woman who long afterwards was to hold her own for two days together without help of counsel against all the array of English law and English statesmanship, armed with irrefragable evidence and supported by the resentment of a nation - showed herself equally devoid of moral and of physical resolution; too senseless to realize the significance and too heartless to face the danger of a situation from which the simplest exercise of reason, principle or courage must have rescued the most unsuspicious and inexperienced of honest women who was not helplessly deficient in self-reliance and self-respect.

Pure and austere, it enjoined the strictest morals in the midst of corruption, and the most dignified self-respect in face of idolatrous servility.

His very defects were among the chief elements of Pelham's success, for one with a strong personality, moderate self-respect, or high conceptions of statesmanship could not have restrained the discordant elements of the cabinet for any length of time.

She had been taught self-respect by Frederick II., and by her great writers in literature Revival of Germany.

It is not for the loss of liberty and of the senatorian rule that he chafes, but for the loss of the old national manliness and self-respect.

And its first achievement for the country (this is again a mere statement of fact) was the restoration of a much-damaged self-respect and the creation of a great defensive fleet not a day too soon for safety.

It was her aim to benefit the working-classes in ways involving no loss of independence or self-respect.

He'd mentioned her a number of times and I know he felt she had potential but was handicapped by her lack of self respect.

When his last hope to earn a crust and gain some self-respect disappears, he decides to take his own life.

Of course he had too much self-respect to steal openly or in broad daylight.

The report lays stress on the preservation of self-respect among residents of homes and the need for privacy in maintaining this self-respect and dignity.

I would like to see the industry gain self-respect for what it does and stop treating the business like a hobby.

She knows I need to work for my own self-respect.

Stockport's success against Bradford - their first in almost four months - earned them a little self-respect.

Very easily, as things turned out, to the cost of the rest of us and our national self-respect.

Think of those instances where professional self-respect has been annihilated.

She had wrestled with the question of mutual self-respect between man and woman; with the limits of the compromises involved in marriage.

I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less.

These feelings undermine the self-respect of peoples and nations, distorting their sense of reality.

Stockport 's success against Bradford - their first in almost four months - earned them a little self-respect.

Emmaus Communities offer homeless men and women a home, work and the chance to rebuild their self-respect in a supportive community environment.

Parents should emphasize self-respect and respect for one's body.

It also works to improve self-confidence, self-image and self respect.

In spite of all its inaccuracies and exaggerations the book served a useful purpose in reviving the self-respect of a despondent people.

They are descendants of feudal days when the mercantile element, being counted as the dregs of the population, lost its self-respect.

Even on the assumption that the Athenian dicasteries were scrupulously fair in their awards, it must have been peculiarly galling to the self-respect of the allies and inconvenient to individuals to be compelled to carry cases to Athens and Athenian juries.

A similar treatment was meted out to the ancient magistracies of the republic; and thus began the process by which the emperors undermined the self-respect of their subjects and eventually came to rule over a nation of slaves.

In his foreign policy Horn was extremely wary and cautious, yet without compromising either the independence or the self-respect of his country.

But It Is Of Far Reaching Importance As The First Great Literary Stimulus To Racial Self Respect.

Some respondents in all three countries felt lonely, isolated and stigmatized and lost self-respect.