Sentence examples for maintain self-respect from inspiring English sources

More recently however, there have been attempts to enlarge the definition to include parameters of "decent life", rather than mere survival, such as the capacity to support families, maintain self-respect and be free to participate in the civic life of the country concerned (Glickman 1999; Brenner 2002).

To maintain self-respect when things were unchangeable, I ignored how things were.

Guilt is an internal fear of punishment, while shame is a fear of external judgment, and often results in punishing oneself in order to maintain self-respect in the eyes of others.

The emphasis throughout is on self-help and on productive work not entirely from financial considerations but because self-help maintains self-respect and affords an outlet for the creative drive, while productive work is more pleasurable for most people than enforced idleness.

Making a decision (disclosure/non-disclosure) that is considered desirable and acceptable represented, for women, a way of maintaining self-respect.

Boesky talks about the books with a surprising affection, even as she describes how it became increasingly difficult to maintain her self-respect while writing them.

On the one hand, Lewis believed firmly that in order to maintain his self-respect, he had to earn his advancement at the company—and elsewhere in life.

To maintain their self-respect, they often respond by being defiant, by transgressing certain norms, even in how they speak, dress, or style their hair.

Here it was as though his script were aspiring to match the words themselves: "We believe in and will endeavor to make a democracy which protects the weak and cares for the needy that they may maintain their self-respect".

They want to choose principles that maintain their self-respect and enable them to freely develop their human capacities and pursue a wide range of activities, as well as engage their capacities for a sense of justice.

The second principle provides fair equality of educational and employment opportunities enabling all to fairly compete for powers and positions of office; and it secures for all a guaranteed minimum of all-purpose means (including income and wealth) individuals need to pursue their interests and to maintain their self-respect as free and equal persons.