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"America works" (motto of the Export-Import Bank of the United States

This is a list of mottos of organizations, institutions, municipalities and authorities.

Organizations

National Mottos

Cultural, philanthropic and scientific

Public service and youth service

Police and public safety

Sport and competition

Politics

Heritage and historical

Religion

Business

Dynasties

Medical

Other

  • Albus Dumbledore: Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one can only remember to turn on the light.
  • International Thespian Society: Act well your part. There all the honor lies.
  • Linux Foundation: Open your source, Open your mind.
  • The Boondock Saints: Aequitas et Veritas, alternately Veritas et Aequitas, Latin for "Truth and Justice" or "Honesty and Equality." Connor MacManus has "Veritas" tattooed on his left hand, while Murphy MacManus has "Aequitas" tattooed on his right hand.
  • The Red Green Show: Quando omni flunkus moritati, Pseudo-Latin for "When all else fails, play dead."

Military and governmental

Municipalities

Australasia

New South Wales

New Zealand

Northern Territory

Queensland

  • Brisbane: Meliora sequimur (We aim for better things)

Southern Australia

  • Adelaide: Ut Prosint Omnibus Conjuncti (United for the common good)

Victoria

  • Melbourne: Vires acquirit eundo (we gather strength as we go)

Canada

British Columbia

  • Kamloops Salus et Opes (Health and Abundance)

Manitoba

New Brunswick

  • Saint John: O Fortunati Quorum Jam Moenia Surgunt (O Fortunate Ones Whose Walls Are Now Rising/O Happy They, Whose Promised Walls Already Rise)

Nova Scotia

  • Halifax: E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea)

Ontario

Quebec

  • Montreal: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony)
  • Quebec City, Quebec: Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put God's gift to good use)

Sasketchewan

  • Regina: Floreat Regina (Let Regina Flourish)

Europe

  • Amsterdam: Valor, Resolution, and Mercy
  • Douglas: Kiannoortys cheusthie jeh Kiannoortys (Manx: Government within a Government)
  • Frankfurt: Stark im Recht (German: Strongly right)
  • 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)
  • Łódź: Ex navicula navis (Big boat out of a small one)
  • Marseille: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis (By her great deeds, Marseille shines in the world)
  • Paris: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Tossed by the waves, she does not founder)
  • Sofia: Raste, no ne staree (Bulgarian: Grows, but does not age)
  • Warsaw: Contemnit procellas (It defies the storms), Semper invicta (Always invincible)
  • Valletta: Citta Umilissima (The most humble city)
  • Żebbuġ, Malta: Semper Virens (Evergreen)

Indonesia

  • Bandung: Gemah Ripah Wibawa Mukti (rich soil, prosperous people)
    Rarasing Rasa Wiwaraning Praja, a Javanese sengkala, referring to the year of 1966, also means "people's harmonious feeling for entering a gate of prosperity"
  • Karawang: Pangkal Perjuangan (struggle starting point)

India

  • Kolkatta (Calcutta): Purosree Bibardhan (Bengali: Progress of the city)
  • Mumbai: Yato Dharmastato Jaya (यतो धर्मस्ततो जय) (Sanskrit: Where there is Righteousness, there shall be Victory). Also pre-independence moto: Urbs Primis in Indis (India's first city)

Republic of Ireland

  • Cork: Statio Bene Fida Carinis (A Safe Harbour For Ships)
  • Dublin: Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas (Happy the city where citizens obey)
  • Dún Laoghaire: Ó Chuan go Sliabh (From the Harbour to the Mountain)
  • Limerick: Urbs Antiqua Fuit Studiisque Asperrima Belli (an ancient city well versed in the arts of war)
  • Waterford: Urbs Intacta Manet Waterfordia (Waterford remains the untaken city)

Latin America

United Kingdom

England

Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
  • Penwith: Kensa ha Dewetha (Cornish: First and Last)
  • Restormel: Ro An Mor Hag An Tyr (Cornish: From the sea and from the land)
Cumbria
  • Carlisle: Be just and fear not
  • Kendal: Pannus mihi panis (wool is my bread)
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
  • Cheltenham: Salubritas et Eruditio (Health and Education)
  • Gloucester: Fides invicta triumphat (Unconquered faith triumphs)
Greater London
  • Bexley: Boldly and Rightly
  • Bromley: Servire Populo (To serve the people)
  • Camden: Non Sibi sed Toti (Not for oneself, but for all)
  • Croydon: Ad Summa Nitamur (Let us strive after perfection)
  • Ealing: Progress With Unity
  • Enfield: By Industry Ever Stronger
  • Greenwich: We Govern by Serving
  • Havering: Liberty
  • Hillingdon: Forward
  • Hounslow: Iuncti Progrediamur (Let us progress together)
  • Lambeth: Spectemur Agendo (Let us be regarded according to our conduct)
  • London: Domine dirige nos (Lord direct us)
  • Merton: Stand Fast In Honour And Strength
  • Redbridge: In Unity Progress
  • Kensington and Chelsea: Quam Bonum In Unum Habitare (What a good thing it is to dwell together in unity)
  • Shoreditch: More Light, More Power
  • Southwark: United to Serve
  • Sutton: Per ardua in fide servite Deo (through difficulties serve God in faith)
  • Waltham Forest: Fellowship Is Life
  • Westminster: Custodi Civitatem Domine (Guard the City, O Lord)
Greater Manchester=
Hampshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
  • Mablethorpe: Amoeniora Litora Nostra (Our shores are more delightful)
Merseyside
  • Liverpool: Not For Ourselves, But For The Whole World
Norfolk
Northumbria
North Yorkshire
Nottingham
  • Nottingham: Vivit Post Funera Virtus (Virtue lives on after death)
Oxfordshire
  • Oxford: Fortis est veritas (Truth is strong)
Staffordshire
South Yorkshire
  • Sheffield: Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit (With God's help our labour is successful)
Surrey
Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire
  • Rugby: Floreat Rugbeia Major (May Greater Rugby Flourish)
West Midlands
Wiltshire
West Yorkshire
  • Leeds: Pro Rege et Lege (For King and Law)
  • Pontefract: Post Mortem Patris pro Filio (Held after the death of the Father for the Son)
Worcestershire
  • Hagley: Let Darkness Stay Below

Scotland

  • Aberdeen: Bon Accord (French: Good Agreement)
  • Arbroath: Propter libertatem
  • Braemar: Mak Siccar (Scots: Make sure)
  • Clydebank: Labore et Scientia (By Work and by Knowledge)
  • Dingwall: Salve corona
  • Duns: Duns Dings Aw (Scots)
  • East Kilbride: Prosper but Dreid
  • Edinburgh: Nisi Dominus frustra (Except the Lord [keep the city, the watchman waketh] in vain. Psalm 127)
  • Falkirk: Touch Ane, Touch Aw - Better meddle wi the Deil than the bairns o Fawkirk (Scots)
  • Forfar: Ut quocunque paratus
  • Galashiels: Soor Ploums (Scots)
  • Glasgow: Let Glasgow Flourish
  • Irvine: Tandem bona causa triumphat (The good cause triumphs in the end)
  • Jedburgh: Strenue et Prospere (With vigour and success)
  • Kelso: Dae Richt - Fear Nocht (Scots)
  • Kinross: Siccar (Scots: Sure)
  • Lerwick: Dispecta est et Thule
  • Port Glasgow: Ter et Quarter anno Revisens Aequor Atlanticum Impune (Three and four times a year revisiting the Atlantic with impunity)
  • Rosehearty: Tyauve awa Rosehearty (Scots)
  • St Andrews: Dum spiro spero (While I Breathe I Hope)
  • Selkirk: At spreta incolumem vita defendere famam
  • Thurso: Wark tae God (Scots)

Northern Ireland

  • Ballyclare: Industria et Probitate (By Work and Integrity)
  • Belfast: Pro tanto quid retribuamus (What shall we give in return for so much)
  • Lisburn: Ex Igne Resurgam (I will arise from the fire)

Wales

  • Merthyr Tydfil: Nid Cadern Ond Brodyrdde (No Strength but in Fellowship)
  • Llandudno: Hardd Hafan Hedd (Welsh: Beautiful haven of peace)
  • Newport: Terra Marique (By land and sea)

United States of America

California

  • San Francisco: Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra (Gold in Peace, Iron in War)

Florida

Illinois

  • Chicago: Urbs In Horto (City in a Garden)

Indiana

Massachusetts

  • Boston: Sicut patribus sit deus nobis (God be with us as He was with our fathers)

Maryland

Michigan

  • Detroit: Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus (We hope for better things, it will rise from the ashes)
  • Grand Rapids: Motu Viget

Minnesota

Pennsylvania

  • Philadelphia: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue)

Texas

Utah

  • Provo: America's Most Liveable City

Virginia

British counties

England

Traditional

Modern

Former

Scotland

Wales

Traditional

Modern

Educational institutions

Universities

Schools

Unsorted

References

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See also