self-respectful

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.

Rationalizing Fuel Price: So far a half done act 2008

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.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

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.

Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House 2005

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

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

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.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

There are no better friends in the world -- no men who understand each other better -- none who meet and converse more freely at their ease -- none who have more respect for each other -- than a genuine gentleman and a self-respectful humble man, who knows his place in the social scale, and is abundantly satisfied with it.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

A thoroughly self-respectful person will command respect anywhere.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

The people who are entirely self-respectful never have any thing to say about their position in the presence of their children; and it is a cruel thing to teach a child, not that there is a grade of society which is actually above him, but that the persons who occupy that grade look down upon him -- and, in the constitution of society, have the right to look down upon him -- with contempt.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

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.

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb

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

Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb