These valley quotes will inspire you. Valley is an elongate depression of the earth’s surface usually between ranges of hills or mountains or a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging valley quotes, valley sayings, and valley proverbs.
Famous Valley Quotes
- “Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.” ~ Billy Graham
- “All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” ~ John Wooden
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“You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.” ~ Gloria Grahame
- “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I’ve come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.” ~ Dave Dravecky
- “I love the Valley. There’s no attitude.” ~ Jeremy London
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“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” ~ Richard M. Nixon
- “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.” ~ Count Basie
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“Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don’t end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that’s even better.” ~ Ruth Buzzi
- “As you go through life, you’ve got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.” ~ Neil Young
- “You have to go through those mountains and valleys – because that’s what life is: soul growth.” ~ Wayne Newton
- “Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” ~ Helen Keller
- “Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.” ~ Morihei Ueshiba
- “The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” ~ Helen Keller
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“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Between Peaks There Are Always Valleys. How You Manage Your Valley Determines How Soon You Reach Your Next Peak.” ~ Spencer Johnson
- “If you have never visited the valleys, the view from the mountain top is not breathtaking.” ~ Robin Sharma
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“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.” ~ Adam Smith
- “Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.” ~ Bernard Williams
- “The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.” ~ Laozi
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“Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.” ~ James A. Garfield
- “Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Street names must speak to the urban wanderer like the snapping of dry twigs, and little streets in the heart of the city must reflect the times of day, for him, as clearly as a mountain valley. This art I acquired rather late in life; it fulfilled a dream, of which the first traces were labyrinths on the blotting papers in my school notebooks.” ~ Walter Benjamin
- “Verily we are from God, and to Him shall we return!” ~ Bahá’u’lláh
- “Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
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“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.” ~ Jim Butcher
- “Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn’t the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.” ~ Emmy Rossum
- “Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.” ~ Christopher Marlowe
- “My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.” ~ Ricky Schroder
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“Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.” ~ Andy Van Slyke
- “Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.” ~ Og Mandino
- “Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.” ~ Charles Stanley
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“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” ~ Ansel Adams
- “There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.” ~ Bryan White
- “A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “The speckled sky is dim with snow,
The light flakes falter and fall slow;
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,
Silently drops a silvery veil, And all the valley is shut-in
By flickering curtains gray and thin.” ~ John Townsend Trowbridge -
“The hardest animal was the vulture. But the horses were great, the dog was great [in Valley of Violence]. It was really easy.” ~ Ti West
- “The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “One of the West’s singular migrations – from the Azores to California’s Great Central Valley – is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos’s new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read…” ~ Gerald Haslam
- “No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers…. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.” We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.” ~ Tecumseh
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“The valley spirit never dies. It is called the mystical female.” ~ Laozi
- “think there’s a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it’s paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that’s an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices.” ~ Astra Taylor
- “Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.” ~ Peder Soerensen , Nature valley quotes
- “When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.” ~ Jacqueline Novogratz
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“With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that’s been my driving force as a filmmaker.” ~ Ti West
- “The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.” ~ Laozi
- “I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them” ~ Douglas Sirk
- “The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.” ~ Salvador de Madariaga
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“The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that’s not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.” ~ David Pogue
- “One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.” ~ Ti West
- “I’m a Valley Girl. You can’t get me out of the Valley, I’m still here.” ~ Cindy Margolis
- “I’m doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I’m putting the camera behind the dog’s shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it’s the weirdest thing. There’s dog coverage, like it’s a person.” ~ Ti West
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“Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.” ~ Laozi
- “I wrote [Valley of Violence] entirely with James Ransone in mind. I get such a joy out of watching his performance and seeing people watch this. He’s so great. The bravado thing and the foolishness, he does them both so well. It’s weird because he’s so hateable in the movie, but in the end, you’re also going, “I feel bad for him.” That’s hard to do. It’s hard to do that to where you’re like, “This guy’s the worst, but I know why he’s the worst, so it’s a shame this is happening.” That’s the whole thing.” ~ Ti West
- “The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.” ~ Laozi
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“Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.” ~ Henry Beston
- “Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.” ~ Ti West
- “I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.” ~ Sue Kelly
