self-respect
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Self-respect never injures your standing with your employer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Self-respect is everything; and it is something to have belonged in deed and in truth to an heroic generation, to have shared in a measure its perils and privations.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)
But let Self-respect be your principle and your practice, and it will leave its impression, by whatever word the impression may be described.
From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)
Self-respect, and a proper deference for our superiors in age or intellect, will be the best safeguards against either a cringing or insolent manner.
From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence
Self-respect and sound economics flourish in such an atmosphere, whereas, if values are hazy and compensation is indirect and irregular, as it is under the custom of tipping, the bickering that follows degrades manhood.
From The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by Scott, William R
