A Quote by Max Ehrmann

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Max Ehrmann

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Max Ehrmann
American - Writer
September 26, 1872 - September 9, 1945

Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

Michel de Montaigne

Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that." "Just the usual ones," she says. "How was the weekend?" "Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?

Michael Cunningham

Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit.

Thomas Otway

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Marcus Aurelius

You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

Ed Skrein

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

Michel de Montaigne

There is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they are persons, they are not some vague idea in the clouds. This God spray does not exist! The three persons exist!

Pope Francis

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

Ariel Levy

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

Dylan Moran

People are more dangerous when they're calm. When theyre loud and aggressive that's usually an act and usually trying to compensate

Cub Swanson

To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.

Nirmala Srivastava

I think the aggressive and loud way that I played in the championship game is kind of polarizing; you either love it or you hate it.

Grayson Allen

I have definitely noticed I am very passionate. So if I'm fighting with someone I'll be SO super loud and aggressive, and make sure that my point is heard.

Melanie Martinez

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.