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self-respect

 
(sĕlf'rĭ-spĕkt')
n.
Due respect for oneself, one's character, and one's conduct.

self-respecting self'-re·spect'ing adj.

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The capacity to bear one's own self-scrutiny. The phrase is Hume's, but self respect is a central concern for ethical theorists working in the Kantian tradition. Self-respect is a good, and is therefore to be distinguished from such neighbours as vanity. It is a platform from which to criticize institutions that undermine it or interrupt its full expression, by making it impossible for some members of a community fully to respect themselves. It is associated in the Kantian tradition with possessing equal rights with others, and with the capacity to see one's actions and patterns of life as consistent with one's own values.

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"I have just about all I can take of myself." - S. Behrman

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life." - Joe Clark

"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference." - Joan Didion

"Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect." - B. C. Forbes

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - selvrespekt

Nederlands (Dutch)
zelfrespect

Français (French)
n. - respect de soi

Deutsch (German)
n. - Selbstachtung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αυτοσεβασμός

Italiano (Italian)
dignità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - amor-próprio (m)

Русский (Russian)
чувство собственного достоинства

Español (Spanish)
n. - amor propio, dignidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - självaktning

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
自尊心, 自重

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 自尊心, 自重

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자존심, 자중

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 自尊, 自重, 自尊心

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أحترام ألنفس‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כבוד עצמי‬


 
 

 

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