1. self-respecting - Adjective
2. self-respecting - Adjective Satellite
having or showing self-esteem
Source: WordNetFrom time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. Dean Koontz
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. Theodore Roosevelt
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime. Emil Cioran
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. Hypatia
As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture. Henry Adams