A thoroughly self-respectful person will command respect anywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

He was esteemed, self-respectful, and happy; and all these things tend to good health and good looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference

No waffling here about fulfilling dreams, but a really self-respectful awareness of what drew her enthusiasms and the problems she was going to have to face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House] Reference

Now by the side of the person who carries an unsuspicious, self-respectful, open face, into any presence, such people as these seem unworthy of the race to which they belong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Yet through all the long and dreary struggle, often diseased in mind as well as in body, he had been resolutely self-dependent, and proudly self-respectful; he had fulfilled his college vow, he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Oliver Goldsmith] Reference

It will cut into his margin probably, but he will be afloat doing business and at the same time will be self-respectful since he as a rich man do not take subsidy from the poor people of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rationalizing Fuel Price: So far a half done act] Reference

I know of men and women who are the favorites of a whole neighborhood -- nay, a whole town -- because they are cheerful, and courageous, and self-respectful under misfortune; and I know of those who are as much dreaded as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Manners were more self-respectful, and therefore more respectful of others, and personal sensitiveness was fenced with more of that ceremonial with which society armed itself when it surrendered the ruder protection of the sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

OXHORN-RINGWOOD: Evan (ph) was a pretty self-respectful child, and he was kind of able -- when we ever put him in the middle, he was kind of able to get us back on course and say, well, if we asked him a question, he would say, well, why don't you go ask my dad?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 14, 2002] Reference

The notion of improving the condition of the poor had not yet dawned on the mind of the governing class; to make the artizan and the operative self-supporting and self-respectful was a movement not merely unformulated, but a conception beyond the parturient faculty of a member of the Jacquerie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine] Reference

Let your deportment be always so pure and self-respectful, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Maiden] Reference

I liked to look at these men, they are so trim, clean, self-respectful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland] Reference

That is apt to happen to self-respectful girls in rural communities, and their beauty doesn't save them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference

It is the business of a race to be self-respectful, ambitious, and aspiring for all that is best in human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference

Cyrus went, after a moment of self-respectful delay, and Marcia sat down on a bench under a pear-tree beside the walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Instance] Reference

His conduct has been uniformly modest but self-respectful, and he had won the esteem of professors as well as students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point]

But this was sentimental, and the Charity Society decrees that only the prosperous and the self-respectful shall deserve a hearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Alone] Reference

They might stand only five feet in their stockings, but they stood straight, and if they were respectful, they were first self-respectful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven English Cities] Reference

PeterCady I have much more respect for the women of the Middle East than the women of America they're much more polite and self-respectful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

But this maid, like a self-respectful employee or a good soldier, resented the familiarity of an official superior as an indecency and an insult.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

Then, in a street not too far from Mayfair, and of the quality of a self-respectful dependant of Belgravia, they set up their breathless Lares and panting.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Films] Reference

Within half an hour is Cambridge, where a delightful domestic life -- simple, self-respectful, cordial, and affectionate -- is seen in an admirable aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870] Reference

Bible-class, and his modest yet self-respectful and intelligent bearing, and he took him to New York in some subordinate capacity connected with his paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four years under Marse Robert,] Reference

They saluted one another like acquaintances, and three clean-shaven, walnut-faced old peasants bowed in response to March's stare, with a self-respectful civility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference

Nothing could be better than his manner and bearing, at once respectful and self-respectful: that manner of a natural gentleman one so often sees in the Irish peasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

Frank, affable, generous and kind, his deportment was marked by that self-respectful courtesy which has all the good effect of dignity, without ever passing by that name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan Leader: A Novel...] Reference

The boy was back wonderfully soon to say the cab would come for us in ten minutes, and to receive with self-respectful appreciation the peseta which rewarded his promptness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

On opening the drawing-room door Rose hastened to his side, turning her back, as she did so, upon a young man of ardent but entirely self-respectful aspect, standing not far distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference

As a collection, these essays are noteworthy for their cogency and clearness, for their earnest and self-respectful plea for full justice and opportunity, and their calmness and candor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement] Reference

There was no rhetoric, no gesture, no grimace, no dramatic familiarity and action; but the manner was self-respectful and courteous to the audience, and the tone supremely just and sincere.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Easy Chair — Volume 01] Reference

To the half dozen women who are startled by sheer audacity into submission there are scores who are piqued by a self-respectful patience; and where a women has to do half the wooing, she generally makes a pretty sure thing of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Mine] Reference

Then it was not he, but only a light overcoat like his covering a very common little man about whom it hung loosely, -- a burlesque of Mr. Arbuton's self-respectful overcoat, or the garment itself in a state of miserable yet comical collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chance Acquaintance] Reference

Yet through all the long and dreary struggle, often diseased in mind as well as in body, he had been resolutely self-dependent, and proudly self-respectful; he had fulfilled his college vow, he had "fought his way by his literature and his wit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference

Yet through all the long and dreary struggle, often diseased in mind as well as in body, he had been resolutely self-dependent, and proudly self-respectful; he had fulfilled his college vow, he had “fought his way by his literature and his wit.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Goldsmith]

Which act would she have thought the least self-respectful? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deerbrook] Reference

Wait in self-respectful patience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kincaid's Battery] Reference

And that's no way to be self-respectful. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost Of Freedom] Reference