Definition of Deserving

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Definition of Deserving
	Deserving of Deserve Desert; merit. Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act. Related Definitions: Act, As, Desert, Deserve, Deserving, Merit, Meritorious, Of, Or, Person, Worthy

Deserving Quotations

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Thomas Hardy

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
John Stuart Mill

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
Ida B. Wells

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Sydney Pollack

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Maggie Gallagher

Deserving Translations

deserving in Dutch is eerzaam, waardig, waar
deserving in Finnish is arvoinen
deserving in German is verdienstvoll, verdienend
deserving in Latin is idoneus
deserving in Norwegian is fortjenstfull
deserving in Portuguese is digno, merecer
deserving in Spanish is merecedor, meritorio

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