Definition of Deserve

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Deserve

To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.

To serve; to treat; to benefit.

To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

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Deserve 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

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
Jack Benny

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Deserve Translations

deserve in Afrikaans is verdien
deserve in Danish is fortjene
deserve in Dutch is waard zijn, toekomen, verdienen
deserve in Finnish is ansaita
deserve in German is verschiedene, verdienen
deserve in Italian is guadagnare
deserve in Latin is mereo mereor, mereo
deserve in Norwegian is fortjene
deserve in Spanish is merecer, ganar

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