Deserving
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Desert; merit.
Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
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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
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
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
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
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
Elfriede Jelinek
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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