Ostrovsky’s famous sayings are as follows:
1. If a person cannot get rid of bad habits, then he is worthless.
2. The most precious thing for people is life. Life belongs to people only once. A person's life should be spent like this: when he recalls the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being inactive; when he is dying, he can say: My whole life and all my energy have been spent. Already dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world, the struggle for the liberation of mankind.
3. People should dominate habits, but habits must not dominate people.
4. The most precious thing in life is life. Life belongs to people only once. A person's life should be spent like this: when he recalls the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being inactive; when he is dying, he can say: My whole life and all my energy, All dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world, the struggle for the liberation of mankind.
5. Oh, the dream finally came true! The iron ring has been smashed, he picked up new weapons, returned to the fighting team, and started a new life.
6. Neither family nor love can make people feel that life is truly happy. Family is just a few people; love is just one person; and the party is 1.6 million people. Living only for your family is the selfishness of an animal; living only for one person is despicable; living only for yourself is a shame.
7. Always feel that the land of the motherland is firmly under your feet, live with the collective, and remember that it is the collective that educates you. If you break away from the group that day, it will be the beginning of the end.
8. Patriotism is multiplied by hatred of the enemy. Only such patriotism can lead to victory.
9. Life gives us a huge and infinitely noble gift, which is youth: full of strength, full of expectations and aspirations, full of aspirations for knowledge and struggle, full of hope, confidence and youth.
10. A person’s life may burn or decay. I cannot decay. I am willing to burn.