Synonyms of the word

self-respecting

• adj. Having self-respect; having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.

dignified

• adj. respectable.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dignify.

proud

• adj. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
• adj. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
• adj. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
• adj. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
• adj. Standing out or raised; swollen.
• adj. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
• adj. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally…