self-respect

Noun

Meaning

Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudable self-esteem.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

self respect

Synonyms

dignity self-worth self-regard confidence pride morale ego self-esteem self-confidence self-reliance self-love self-possession self-assurance pridefulness self-admiration
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Antonyms

restraint embarrassment humility modesty timidity reticence
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Hypernyms

pride pridefulness

Examples

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. Marcus Aurelius

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. Kurt Cobain

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . Anne Brontë

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Shaw

Close letter words and terms

self-repugnant self-repulsive self-rescuer self-respectful self-respecting self-restrained