Roman Abramovich Quotes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life.

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

He who hath many friends hath none.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.

Daniel Bryan is one of the few people in the world I would stand toe-to-toe with in any situation and know that we would do the same for me.

You can have a mate for 30 years, it's easy.

The real deal is when you are friends with someone said since ninth standard or college days: the person who has been with you through your struggle and stayed with you through thick and thin.

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

A real friend ... exults in his friend’s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.