List of mottos
This is a list of mottos of organisations, institutions, municipalities and authorities.
Organisations
Apollo 13 : Ex luna, scientia (from the Moon, knowledge),
Arsenal F.C. : Victoria Concordia Crescit (victory comes from harmony)
Amsterdam Zoo : Natura Artis Magistra
Audi : Vorsprung durch Technik
Ba'ath Party : Wahdah, Hurriyah, Ishtirrakiyah (Unity, Freedom, Socialism)
BBC : Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation
Benedictine Order: ora et labora (pray and work)
Boy Scouts : Be Prepared
Boys' Brigade : Sure and Stedfast
Christian Democracy (Italy) : Libertas
Daughters of the American Revolution : God, Home, and Country
ETA : Bietan jarrai (Basque: Keep up on both)
FC Barcelona : El Barça és més que un club (Barça is more than a club)
Fédération Internationale des Échecs : Gens una sumus (We are one people)
Feyenoord Rotterdam : Geen woorden maar daden (No words but deeds)
La Francophonie : égalité, complémentarité, solidarité (equality, complementarity, and solidarity).
House of Savoy : FERT
Jewish Defense League : Never Again
Knights Hospitaller : Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum (Defence of the faith and assistance to the suffering)
Los Angeles Police Department : To Protect and to Serve
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : Ars Gratia Artis (Art for Art's Sake )
Microsoft : Where do you want to go today? / Your potentional, our passion.
Monarchist League of Canada : Fidelitate Coniuncti (Loyalty Binds Us)
Muslim Brotherhood : Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope
Olympic Games : Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger)
Paralympic Games : Spirit in Motion
Rothschild family : Concordia, Integritas, Industria, (Unity, Integrity, Diligence)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police : Maintiens le droit (Uphold the law)
Royal College of Anaesthetists : Divinum sedare dolorem (It is divine to alleviate pain)
Royal Society : Nullius in verba (On the word of no one)
Society of Jesus : Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
South African Museum : Semper aliquid novi Africa affert (Africa is always producing some novelty)
Swedish Academy : Snille och Smak (Swedish: Talent and Taste)
Thames Valley Police : Sit pax in valle tamesis (Let there be peace in the Thames Valley)
Trinity House : Trinitas in unitate
United Daughters of the Confederacy : Love, Live, Pray, Think, Dare
United Negro College Fund : A mind is a terrible thing to waste
Women's Institute : For Home and Country
Women's Social and Political Union : Deeds not words
Zapatista Army of National Liberation : Ya Basta
Medical
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland : In somno securitas
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland : omnes ab omnibus discamus" - literally "let us learn all things from everybody
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists : Corpus curare spiritumque (To care for the body and its breath of life)
Canadian Association of General Surgeons : Sapientia Manaque Apta (Wisdom and a Skillful Hand)
Canadian Orthopaedic Association : Pietate, Arte et Scientia Corrigere (With compassion, skill and knowledge we correct, straighten or set right)
Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons : Vincat Scientia Morbos (Let knowledge conquer disease)
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists : Excellence in women's health
Royal College of General Practitioners : Cum Scientia Caritas (Scientific knowledge applied with compassion)
Royal College of Midwives : Vita donum dei (Life is the gift of God)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists : Super Ardua (Let us overcome our difficulties)
Royal College of Ophthalmologists : Ut Omnes Videant (So That All May See)
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health : Hereditas Domini filii (Children are a heritage from the Lord)
Royal College of Psychiatrists : Let Wisdom Guide
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland : Consilio Manuque (Scholarship and Dexterity)
Royal Pharmaceutical Society : Habenda ratio valetudinis (We must pay attention to our health)
ZAKA : Hessed Shel Emet "True kindness"
Orders
Military
United Kingdom
United States
Israel
Israeli Defence Forces
Sayeret Matkal : Mi Shemaez Menatze'ah (Who Dares Wins )
Paratroopers Brigade : Nizom, Novil, Ne'ave Dugma VeNenarze'ah (Will Shall Innovate, We Shall Lead, We Shall Set An Example - and We Shall Win)
Givati Brigade : Yehidat Sgula (A Unit of Virtue , also means: purple - the brigade's berret color)
Nahal Brigade : Hayitaron ha-Enoshi (The Human Advantage).
Israeli Engineering Corps : Tamid Rishonim (Always First).
Israeli Engineering Corps : Et ha-Kashe Naase Hayom, Et ha-Bilti Efshari Naase Machar (The hard - we shall do today, the impossible - we shall do tommorow).
Israeli Armored Corps : Ha-Adam She-ba-Tank Yenatze'ah (The Man In The Tank [is the one who] Shall Win)
Israeli Artillery Corps : Bli Siyua, Ha-chir Lo Yanua (Without Support, the Infantry Won't Move)
Israeli Intelligence Corps : Lach ,Dumiya, Tehila (Silence, the Glory Is For Thee)
SHABAK : Magen Ve-Lo Yira'e (Defender Who Shall Not Be Seen)
Mossad : Be'ein Tachbulot Yipol Am Veteshua Berov Yoetz (Without cunning a nation shall fall, [But] Salvation Come By Many Good Councils)
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force 's 425 Bomber Squadron: Je te plumerai (French: I shall pluck you)
Royal Canadian Infantry : Ducimus (Latin: We lead)
Joint Task Force 2 - Canadian Special Forces : Facta non verba (Latin: Action not words)
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada : In Pace Paratus (Latin: In peace prepared)
Canadian Grenadier Guards : Honi soit qui mal y pense (French: Evil be to him who evil thinks)
Livery companies
Municipalities
Aberdeen : Bon Accord
Adelaide : Ut Prosint Omnibus Conjuncti (United for the common good)
Amersham : Res Gestae Res Futurae (Things Past, Things Future)
Amsterdam :Valor, Resolution, and Mercy
Arbroath : Propter libertatem
Ashford : With Stronger Faith
Aylesbury Vale : Concordia Prorsum (Forward In Harmony)
Ballyclare : Industria et Probitate (By Work and Integrity)
Bandung : Gemah Ripah Wibawa Mukti (rich soil, prosperous people)
Belfast : Pro tanto quid retribuamus (What shall we give in return for so much)
Blyth Valley : We Grow by Industry
Bournemouth : Pulchritudo et salubritas (beauty and health)
Braemar : Mak Siccar (Scots : Make sure)
Brentwood : Ardens (burning)
Brooklyn : Een Draght Mackt Maght (In Unity, There is Strength)
Burnley : Hold To The Truth
Chelmsford : Many minds, one heart
Cheltenham : Salubritas et Eruditio (Health and Education)
Chesham : Serve One Another
Cheshire : jure et dignitate gladii (by the law and dignity of the sword)
Chicago, Illinois : Urbs In Horto (City in a Garden)
Chiltern : Freely We Serve
City of London : Domine dirige nos (Lord, direct us)
Clackmannanshire : Look aboot ye
Clydebank : Labore et Scientia (By Work and by Knowledge)
Cork : Statio Bene Fida Carinis (A Safe Harbour For Ships)
Crewe and Nantwich : Semper Progrediamur (Let us always go forward)
Croydon : Ad Summa Nitamur (Let us strive after perfection)
Darlington : Optima Petamus (Let us seek the best)
Derry/Londonderry : Vita, Veritas, Victoria (Life, Truth, Victory)
Detroit, Michigan : Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus (We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes)
Dingwall : Salve corona
Douglas, Isle of Man : Kiannoortys cheus thie jeh Kiannoortys (Manx : Government within a Government)
Dublin : Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas (Happy the city where citizens obey)
Duns : Duns Dings A'
East Kilbride : Prosper but Dreid
Edinburgh : Nisi Dominus frustra (Except the Lord [keep the city, the watchman waketh] in vain. Psalm 127)
Exeter : Semper fidelis
Falkirk : Touch Ane, Touch A' - Better meddle wi the Deil than the bairns o Falkirk
Forfar : Ut quocunque paratus
Galashiels : Soor Plums
Gateshead : In Unity, Progress
Gdańsk : Nec temere, nec timide (Neither rashly nor timidly)
Gdynia : Gdynia - miasto z morza i marzeń (Polish : Gdynia - a city built of sea and dreams)
Glasgow : Let Glasgow Flourish
Gloucester : Fides invicta triumphat (Unconquered faith triumphs)
Halifax, Nova Scotia : E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea)
Harwich : Omnia Bona Bonis (To the good all things are good)
Jedburgh : Strenue et Prospere (With vigour and success)
Kelso : Dae Richt - Fear Nocht
Kendal : Pannus mihi panis (wool is my bread)
Kensington and Chelsea : Quam Bonum In Unum Habitare (What a good thing it is to dwell together in unity)
Kinross : Siccar (Scots: Sure)
Lambeth : Spectemur Agendo (Let us be regarded according to our conduct)
Leeds : Pro Rege et Lege (For King and Law)
Leicester : Semper Eadem (always the same)
Lerwick : Dispecta est et Thule
Lichfield : Salve, magna parens (Hail great Mother)
Lisburn : Ex Igne Resurgam (I will arise from the fire)
Lodz : Ex navicula navis (Big boat out of a small one)
London : Domine dirige nos (Lord direct us)
Mablethorpe : Amoeniora Litora Nostra (Our shores are more delightful)
Melbourne : Vires acquirit eundo (we gather strength as we go)
Merton : Stand Fast In Honour And Strength
Middlesbrough : Erimus (We shall be)
Milton Keynes : By Knowledge Design And Understanding
Montreal : Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony)
Nelson, New Zealand : Palmam qui meruit ferat (Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
New Forest : Old Yet Ever New
Newport : Terra Marique (By land and sea)
Norwich : Do different
Oldham : Sapere aude (Have courage to be wise)
Ottawa : Advance Ottawa
Oxford : Fortis est veritas (Truth is strong)
Penwith : Kensa ha Dewetha (Cornish: First and Last)
Peterborough : Upon This Rock
Plymouth : Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah (the name of Jehovah is the strongest tower)
Pontefract : Post Mortem Patris pro Filio (Held after the death of the Father for the Son)
Port Glasgow : Ter et Quarter anno Revisens Aequor Atlanticum Impune (Three and four times a year revisiting the Atlantic with impunity)
Portsmouth : Heaven's Light Our Guide
Quebec City, Quebec : Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put God's gift to good use)
Redbridge : In Unity Progress
Regina : Floreat Regina (Let Regina Flourish)
Restormel : Ro An Mor Hag An Tyr (Cornish : From the sea and from the land)
Richmond, Virginia : Sic Itur Ad Astra (Such is the way to the Stars)
Romsey : Quae Recta Tene
Rosehearty : Tyauve awa' Rosehearty
Rugby, Warwickshire : Floreat Rugbeia Major (May Greater Rugby Flourish)
Rushmoor : Strength in Unity
Saint John, New Brunswick : O Fortunati Quorum Jam Moenia Surgunt (O Fortunate Ones Whose Walls Are Now Rising/O Happy They, Whose Promised Walls Already Rise)
San Francisco : Gold in peace, iron in war
Selkirk : At spreta incolumem vita defendere famam
Sheffield : Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit (With God's help our labour is successful)
Shoreditch : More Light, More Power
South Buckinghamshire : Consilio Et Animis (By wisdom and courage)
South Cambridgeshire : Niet Zonder Arbyt (Dutch : Nothing without work)
Southend-on-Sea : Per Mare Per Ecclesiam (By the Sea and By the Church)
Spelthorne : Ad Solem Prospicimus (We look towards the Sun)
St Andrews : Dum spiro spero
Sutton : Per ardua in fide servite Deo (through difficulties serve God in faith)
Test Valley : Deo Teste Valeamus (With God as our witness, let us be strong)
Thurrock : Secundum Tamesim Quovis Gentium (By the Thames to all peoples of the World)
Thurso :Wark to God
Torbay : Salus Et Felicitas (Health and happiness)
Toronto : Diversity Our Strength
Tunbridge Wells : Do Well Doubt Not
Waltham Abbey : Sanctae Nomine Crucis (by the name of the Holy Cross)
Waltham Forest : Fellowship Is Life
Warsaw : Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms), Semper invicta (Always invincible)
Waterford : Urbs Intacta Manet Waterfordia (Waterford remains the untaken city)
Westminster : Custodi Civitatem Domine (Guard the City, O Lord)
Wigan : Ancient and Loyal
Winnipeg, Manitoba : Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many)
Wolverhampton : Out of darkness, cometh light
Educational institutions
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg : Die Weisheit hat sich ein Haus erbaut (German : "Wisdom built itself a house")
Amherst College : Terras Irradient (Latin : "Let them give light to the world")
Athabasca University : Learning for life
Australian National University : Naturam primum cognoscere rerum (Latin : "First, to learn the nature of things")
Blue Coat School, Oldham : Semper Quaereamus Virtutem (Latin : "Let us always seek virtue")
Bob Jones University : Petimus Credimus (Latin : "We seek, we trust")
Brown University : In deo speramus ((Latin : "In God we hope")
California Institute of Technology : The truth shall make you free
Carleton University : Ours the Task Eternal
Chalmers University of Technology : Avancez (French: "Advance")
Christ's College, Cambridge : Souvent me Souvient (French: "I often remember")
Churchill College, Cambridge : Forward
Clifton College : Spiritus Intus Alit
Columbia University : In lumine tuo videbimus lumen (Latin: "In thy light we shall see light")
Dalhousie University : Ora et labora (Latin: Pray and work)
Dartmouth College : Vox Clamantis in Deserto (Latin: "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness")
Downing College, Cambridge : Quaerere Verum (Latin: "Seek the truth")
École Polytechnique de Montréal : Ut tensio sic vis (Latin: "The power depends on the tension")
Eton College : Floreat Etona (Latin: "May Eton Florish")
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge : Ex antiquis et novissimis optima (Latin: "Best of the old and the new")
Florida A&M University : Head, heart, hand, field
Florida Atlantic University : Where Tomorrow Begins
Florida State University : Vires, artes, mores (Latin: Strength, skill, customs)
Georgetown University : Collegium Georgiopolitanum ad ripas Potomaci in Marylandia (Latin: "Georgetown College on the banks of the Potomac in Maryland")
Gothenburg University : Tradita innovare innovata tradere
Harrow School : Stet Fortuna domus (Latin: "Let fortune stay at home")
Harvard University Veritas (Latin: "Truth")
Homerton College, Cambridge : Respice Finem (Latin: "Look to the end")
Indiana University : Lux et Veritas (Latin: "Light and Truth")
Iowa State University : Science with practice
Jagiellonian University : Plus ratio quam vis (Latin: "Reason means more than power")
Johns Hopkins University : Veritas vos liberabit (Latin: "The truth will set you free")
King's College, Cambridge : Veritas et utilitas (Latin: "Truth and usefulness")
La Trobe University : Qui cherche trouve (French: "Seek and ye shall find")
Lund University : Ad utrumque
Macquarie University : And Gladly Teche (Middle English: "And gladly teach"—from The Canterbury Tales Magdalene College, Cambridge : Garde ta Foy (Keep your Faith)
Manchester Grammar School : Sapere aude (Have courage to be wise)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Mens et Manus (mind and hand)
McGill University : Grandescunt Aucta Labore (By work all things increase and grow)
McMaster University : Ta panta en Christoi synesteken ("In Christ all things hold together" or "All things cohere in Christ")
Memorial University of Newfoundland : Provehito in altum (Launch forth into the deep)
Monash University : Ancora imparo (I am still learning)
National Taiwan University : Cultivate your virtue; advance your intellect; love your country; love your people
New York University : Perstare et praestare (to persist and to excel)
Ohio Wesleyan University : In lumine tuo videbimus lumen (Your Light We Shall See the Light)
Plymouth State University : Ut Prosim (that I may serve)
Purdue University : Education, Research, Service
Queens' College, Cambridge : Floreat Domus (May this House Flourish)
Queen's University, Kingston : Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas (Wisdom and Knowledge Shall be the Stability of Thy Times)
Rhodes College : Truth, Loyalty, Service
Royal Institute of Technology : Vetenskap och Konst (Science and Art)
Rugby School : Orando Laborando
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg : Semper apertus
Selwyn College, Cambridge : ΑΝΔΡΙΖΕΣΘΕ (quit ye like men)
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Stanford University : Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom blows)
Syracuse University : Suos Cultores Scientia Coronat (Knowledge crowns those who seek her)
Thompson Rivers University : Quansem Ilep (Chinook : to strive ahead)
Trinity College, Cambridge : Virtus vera nobilitas (Virtue is the True Nobility)
University College Chester : Qui docet in doctrina
University of Aarhus : Solidum petit in profundis
University of Aberdeen : Initium sapientiae timor Domini (Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom)
University of Alberta : Quaecumque Vera (Latin: Whatsoever things are true)
University of Birmingham : Per ardua ad alta (through hard work, great things are achieved)
University of Bradford : Give Invention Light
University of British Columbia : Tuum est (Previous official translation: "It's up to you"; now: "It's yours")
University of Calgary : Mo shuile togam suas (I will lift up my eyes)
University of Cambridge : Hinc lucem et pocula sacra ([From] here [the university] [we receive] light and sacred draughts [knowledge])
University of Central Florida : Reach for the Stars
University of Copenhagen : Adspicit lucem in cćlestis
University of East Anglia : Do different
University of Glasgow : Via, Veritas, Vita (the Way, the Truth, the Life)
University of Guelph : Rerum cognoscere causas (Latin: To learn the meaning of reality)
University of Hawaii : Maluna a'e o na lahui a pau ke ola ke kanaka (Hawaiian : Above all nations is humanity)
University of Leicester : Ut Vitam Habeant (so that they may have life)
University of Leiden : Praesidium Libertatis
University of Limerick : Eagna chun gnímh (Wisdom in action)
University of Lincoln : Excellentia per studium (Excellence through study)
University of Liverpool : Haec otia studia fovent (This leisure makes our studies flourish)
University of Malta : Ut Fructificemus Deo
University of Manchester : Cognitio Sapientia Humanitas (Knowledge, wisdom, humanity)
University of Melbourne : Postera crescam laude (I shall grow in the esteem of future generations)
University of Montreal : Fide splendet et scientia (Latin: May it shine with truth and knowledge)
University of New Zealand : Sapere aude (Have courage to be wise)
University of Northern British Columbia : 'En Cha Huná
University of Nottingham : Sapientia Urbs Conditur (A City is Built on Wisdom)
University of Otago : Sapere aude (Have courage to be wise)
University of Oxford : Dominus Illuminatio Mea (The Lord is my Light)
University of Pennsylvania : Leges sine Moribus vanae (Laws without morals are in vain)
University of Queensland : Scientia ac Labore (through knowledge and hard work)
University of Regina : As One Who Serves
University of Saint Andrews : Aien Aristeuein (Ever to be the Best)
University of Saskatchewan : Deo et Patriae (God and Country)
University of Sheffield : Rerum cognoscere causas (To discover the causes of things)
University of South Florida : Truth and Wisdom
University of Stirling : Innovation and excellence
University of Strathclyde : Place of Useful Learning
University of Sydney : Sidere mens eadem mutato (Although the constellations change the mind is constant)
University of Sydney : Sidere mens eadem mutato (The stars change, [but] the mind [remains] the same)
University of the West Indies : Oriens Ex Occidente Lux (Light Rising From the West)
University of Toronto : Velut arbor aevo (As a tree with the passage of time)
University of Victoria , British Columbia: Multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis (A multitude of the wise is the health of the world)
University of Warwick : Mens tat agi molem
University of Waterloo : Concordia cum veritate (Latin: In harmony with truth)
University of Western Ontario : Veritas et Utilitas (Latin: Truth and usefulness)
University of Ottawa : Deus est scientarium dominus (Latin: God is the master of knowledge)
Wilfred Laurier University : Veritas omnia vincit (Latin: Truth Conquers all)
Uppsala University : Gratiae veritas naturae
Utrecht University : Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos (Sun of Justice, shine upon us)
Westminster School : Dat Deus Incrementum
Wolfson College, Cambridge : Ring True
Wolfson College, Oxford : Humani nil alienum.
Yale University : Lux et Veritas (Latin: Light and Truth)
York University : Tentanda via (Latin: The way must be tried)
ÖCV, the association of Catholic student fraternities of Austria: In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
University of Hong Kong : Sapientia et Virtus (Latin: Wisdom and Strength)
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