self-respect
Example Sentences
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She said Atkins' behaviour "totally eroded my self-respect and my self-esteem".
From BBC
The Continent “produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven,” and it isn’t narrow or xenophobic to feel pride in this; it is a just self-respect without which you won’t be able to continue in history.
“It wasn’t a matter of Gandhi or Dr. King then,” he said of the library sit-in, “it was just my own private pride and self-respect.”
From Los Angeles Times
“She taught me how to be a real woman, to have strength and self-respect, and to never give those things away,” Witherspoon said.
From Los Angeles Times
But he also lives for “the moment an audience will abandon its dignity and its self-respect” and laugh.
From Los Angeles Times
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