List of mottos

thumb|right|An example of a [[motto, Te mauri, te raoi ao te tabomoa (Health, peace and prosperity) on the Coat of arms of Kiribati]]

This list contains the mottos of organizations, institutions, municipalities and authorities.

Organizations

National mottos

List of national mottos

Cultural, philanthropic and scientific

Amsterdam Zoo: (Nature is the teacher of art)
International Expositions: (Always true)
Monarchist League of Canada: (United by fealty)
Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy): (Cleans, fixes and gives shine)
Royal Society: (On the word of no one)
South African Museum: (Africa is always producing some novelty)
Swedish Academy: (Talent and taste)

Public service and youth service

4-H: "To make the best better."
Air Training Corps: Venture, Adventure
Army Cadet Force: To Inspire and achieve.
Boy Scouts: Be Prepared
Boys' Brigade: Sure and Stedfast (Old spelling)
Brownies: Lend A Hand
Civil Air Patrol: (Always vigilant)
Cub Scouting Do Your Best
Girlguiding UK: Be Prepared
Girls' Brigade: Seek, serve and follow Christ
Guides: Be Prepared
National FFA Organization: Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve
New Zealand Air Training Corps: We Train to Serve
St. John Ambulance: For the Faith and For the Service of Mankind

Police and public safety

Carabineros de Chile: Order and Fatherland
Chicago Police Department: We Serve and Protect
Detroit Police Department: Making Detroit a Safer Place to Live, Work, and Visit
Houston Police Department: Order through law, justice with mercy.
Icelandic Police: (With laws shall lands be built)
Indonesian National Police: Sanskrit: Rastra Sewakottama (Serving the Nation)
Los Angeles Airport Police: Serving the Aviation Community
Los Angeles Police Department: To Protect and to Serve
Maine State Police: (Always just)
Metropolitan Police Service: Working together for a safer London
Milwaukee Police Department: Be A Force
Minneapolis Police Department: To Protect with Courage, To Serve with Compassion
Korean National Police Agency: (A Friendly and Reliable Police Force for the People )
New South Wales Police Force: (Punishment Follows Closely On Guilt)
New York Police Department: Fidelis ad Mortem (Faithful unto death)
Royal Malaysian Police: (Firm, Fair & Prudent)
Sacramento County Sheriff: Service with Concern
Singapore Police Force: (Loyalty and Service)
New Zealand Police: Safer communities together
Thames Valley Police: (Let there be peace in the Thames Valley)
Trinity House: (Trinity in unity)
United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police: Protecting Those Who Serve
Victoria Police: Uphold the Right
Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Maintiens le Droit (Uphold the right)

Sport and competition

International organisations

Fédération Internationale des Échecs: (We are one people)
International Practical Shooting Confederation: (Accuracy, power, speed)
Olympic Games: (Faster, higher, stronger - Together)
Paralympic Games: Spirit in Motion

Africa and Asia

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya: (Character, Faith, Force)
Asante Kotoko S.C.: Ashanti (Kill a thousand, and a thousand more will come)
Kolkata Knight Riders: Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo re (Will do, will fight, will win)

Americas

Carolina Panthers: Keep Pounding
Chicago Fire SC: Tradition. Honor. Passion.
Colo-Colo: (The team that has known to become champion)
CR Flamengo: (Once Flamengo, always Flamengo)
Tabor Academy: (Truth always conquers)

Australia

Adelaide Football Club: (Born to great things)
Carlton Football Club: (Sound Mind in a Healthy Body)
Collingwood Football Club: (May the Magpie flourish)
Essendon Football Club: (Gently in manner, resolutely in execution)
Footscray Football Club: (Yield to none)
Hawthorn Football Club: (Judged by our actions)
North Melbourne Football Club: (Victory demands dedication)
Port Adelaide Football Club: We Are Port Adelaide
St Kilda Football Club: (Strength through Loyalty)

Europe

FC Barcelona: (More than a club) and (All together we are strong)
Sport Lisboa e Benfica: (Out of many, one)
Feyenoord Rotterdam: (No words but deeds)
ADO Den Haag: Dutch Football Club: Alles Door Oefening (Everything Through Practice)
SS Lazio: (In harmony small things grew)
Olympique de Marseille: (Straight to the Goal)
FC Porto: (Conquering since 1893)
Sporting Clube de Portugal: (Effort, dedication, devotion, glory)
Real Madrid CF: (Hail Madrid and nothing more)

United Kingdom

Arsenal F.C.: (Victory through harmony)
Aston Villa F.C.: Prepared
Blackburn Rovers F.C.: Arte et Labore (By skill and by hard work)
Chelsea Football Club: Keep The Blue Flag Flying High
Everton Football Club: (Nothing but the best is good enough)
Leeds United F.C.: Marching on Together
Leicester City F.C.: Foxes Never Quit and #Fearless
Llanelli Wanderers RFC: (Friendship through wandering)
Liverpool Football Club: You'll Never Walk Alone
Manchester City F.C.: (Pride in battle)
Norwich City F.C: On the Ball, City
Queen's Park F.C.: (To play for the sake of playing)
Rangers F.C.: Ready
Sheffield Wednesday F.C.: (by Wisdom and Courage)
Shrewsbury Town F.C: (May Shropshire flourish / Let Salop flourish)
Stoke City: (United Strength is Stronger)
Sunderland A.F.C.: (In pursuit of excellence)
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.: (To dare is to do)

Politics

Chechen Resistance: Ojal ya Marsho (Chechen: Freedom or death)
Christian Democracy (Italy): Libertas
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Cuba): ¡En cada barrio, Revolución! (Spanish: In every neighborhood, Revolution!)
ETA: Bietan jarrai (Basque: Keep up on both)
Industrial Workers of the World: An injury to one is an injury to all
La Francophonie: égalité, complémentarité, solidarité (equality, complementarity, and solidarity).
Liberal Party of the Philippines: Noon at Ngayon, Liberal Marangal (Past and present, honorable Liberal)
Muslim Brotherhood: Allah Akbar, Wa Lellah Al Hamd (God is greater, thanks to God)
Nacionalista Party: Ang Bayan Higit sa Lahat (The nation above all)
Socialistisk Folkeparti: Det ku' være så godt (Danish: It could be so good)
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League: One God! One Aim! One Destiny!
Women's Institute: For Home and Country
Women's Social and Political Union: Deeds not words
Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Ya Basta! (Spanish: Enough already!)

Heritage and historical

Daughters of the American Revolution: God, Home, and Country
Sons of the American Revolution: (Liberty and country)
United Daughters of the Confederacy: Love, Live, Pray, Think, Dare

Religion

Ahmadiyya Community: Love for All Hatred for None
Benedictine Order: (pray and work)
Carmelite Order: (I am aflame with zeal for the Lord God of Hosts)
Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen: (In need unity, in doubt liberty, in everything charity)
Dominican Order: (Truth), (Praise, bless, preach)
K.A.V. Lovania Leuven: (Always do your best); (The Spirit lives in us all)
Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya: A Nation cannot be reformed without the reformation of its youth
Knights Hospitaller: (Support the faithful and serve the poor)
Knights Templar: (Not to us, Lord, not to us; but your name give glory)
Lajna Imaillah: No nation can progress without educating their women
Philippine Independent Church: (For God and country)
Pontificate of Pope Pius XII: (peace is the fruit of justice)
Pontificate of Pope Francis: (by having mercy and by choosing)
Salvation Army: Blood and Fire
Society of Jesus: (For the greater glory of God)
United Church of Christ: That they may all be one.
United Methodist Church: Open hearts, Open minds, Open doors

Business

ABUS Crane Systems: Moving On Up
Audi: Vorsprung durch Technik (Literally: Advantage through technology, Figuratively: The technical edge)
BBC: Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation
Harrods: Omnia Omnibus Ubique (All Things, For All People, Everywhere)
IdentLogic Systems: (Let him who has earned it bear the reward)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: (Art for art's sake)
Royal Mail Lines: (Everywhere by sea)

Medieval nobility

Famous mottos, usually deliberately cryptic, adopted during the age of chivalry and courtly love by great noblemen and ladies include:

À Mon Seul Désir, appearing on The Lady and the Unicorn tapestry made in Paris circa 1500;
Me Sovent Sovant, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1441/3-1509) (Souvent me souviens, "Often I remember") which was adopted by St John's College, Cambridge, founded by her;
A Vous Entier John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389–1435);
Le Temps Venra Jean de Berry (1340–1416)
Le Bon Temps Viendra, ("the right time will come") Bourchier family;
Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, King Edward III (ruled 1327–1377) of England, motto of the Order of the Garter (1348);
J'en Garde un Leal, Anne Malet de Graville ((1490?–1540?))

Dynasties

Belgian monarchy: (Union makes strength)
British monarchy (Plantagenet): (God and my right / God and my right shall me defend)
Dutch monarchy: (I will maintain)
Greek royal family : (People's love, my strength)
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, House of Romania : (Nothing without God)
Pahlavi dynasty : (Justice He [God] bids me do, as He will judge me)
Rothschild family: (Unity, integrity, diligence)
House of Savoy: FERT
Spanish monarchy : (Further beyond)
Royal mottos of Danish monarchs
List of Norwegian monarchs' mottos
Royal mottos of Swedish monarchs

Families

Medical

American Board of Ophthalmology: (From darkness, light)
Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland: (In sleep there is safety)
Association of Veterinary Surgeons in Bulgaria: (A scalpel in a wise hand gives life)
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland: (Let us learn all things from everybody)
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists: (To care for the body and its breath of life)
Australian College of Pharmacy: Education for Practice and Management
Canadian Association of General Surgeons: (Wisdom and a skillful hand)
Canadian Orthopaedic Association: (With compassion, skill and knowledge we correct, straighten or set right)
Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India. Mens sana in corpora sano ()
Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons: (Let knowledge conquer disease)
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: Excellence in women's health
Royal College of Anaesthetists: (It is divine to alleviate pain / Divine is the effort to conquer pain)
Royal College of General Practitioners: (Scientific knowledge applied with compassion)
Royal College of Midwives: (Life is the gift of God)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: (Let us overcome our difficulties)
Royal College of Ophthalmologists: (So that all may see)
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: (Children are a heritage from the Lord)
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Let Wisdom Guide
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland: (Scholarship and dexterity)
Royal Pharmaceutical Society: (We must pay attention to our health)
Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course: Safiri Salama (Swahili: Travel safely)
ZAKA: Hessed Shel Emet (True kindness)

Other

Association of Trust Schools: (In order to achieve what has been undertaken)
Glasgow Filmmakers Alliance: Whatever the weather, we stand together
International Thespian Society: Act well your part. There all the honor lies
Linux Foundation: Open your source, Open your mind
The Boondock Saints: , alternately (Truth and justice / Honesty and equality)
The Red Green Show: Quando omni flunkus moritati (Pseudo-Latin When all else fails, play dead)

Military and governmental

Canadian Security Intelligence Service: A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice.
Canadian Army: Vigilamus pro te (We stand on guard for thee)
Royal Canadian Air Force: Sic Itur ad Astra (Such is the pathway to the stars)
Royal Canadian Navy: Parati vero parati (Ready aye ready)
Canadian Special Operations Forces Command: Facta, non verba (Actions, not words)
Irish Army Cavalry Corps: Through the mud and blood to the green fields beyond
Apollo 13: (From the Moon, knowledge)
British Special Air Service: Who Dares Wins
Indian Army: Naam, Namak, Nishan (Be honourable, true to your salt, and uphold the flag)
Indian Army Medical Corps: Sarve Santu Niramaya (Everyone should remain healthy, good health for all)
National Security Agency (NSA): Defending Our Nation, Securing The Future
Ontario Regiment of Canada: Canadian Armed Forces Armoured Reserve Regiment: (Faithful and prepared)
Pakistan Army: Iman, Taqwa, Jihad Fi Sabil-illah, Men at their Best. (Faith, piety, struggle in the way of Almighty Allah, men at their best)
Philippine National Police: We Serve and Protect
Royal Air Force (United Kingdom): (Through adversity to the stars)
Royal Marines (United Kingdom): (By sea, by land)
Household Division (United Kingdom): (Seven joined in one)
United States Air Force Academy: Integrity First, Service before self, Excellence in All we Do
United States Coast Guard (USCG): (Always ready)
United States Coast Guard Life-Saving Service (USCG LSS): You have to go out, but you don't have to come back
United States Marine Corps (USMC): (Always faithful)
United States Military Academy: Duty, Honor, Country
US Air Force Pararescue: That Others May Live
United States Army: This We'll Defend
Spanish Light Armoured Cavalry Regiment Santiago No 1 : (My foot has stood in the right way/direction (or in uprightness; in integrity )
United States Secret Service: Worthy of Trust and Confidence

Orders and decorations

Canada

Order of Canada: (They desired a better land)
Order of Military Merit (Canada): (Service before self)

Europe

Legion of Honour (France): (Honour and Fatherland)
Order of Charles III (Spain): (By virtue and merit)
Order of the Crown (Belgium): (Work and Progress)
Order of the Cross of Liberty (Finland): (For the Fatherland)
Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark): (God and the King)
Order of the Elephant (Denmark): (The prize of greatness)
Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish version): (Strike before they see the flame)
Order of the House of Orange (Netherlands): (I will maintain)
Order of Leopold (Belgium): (Union makes strength)
Order of Leopold II (Belgium): (Union makes strength)
Order of Merit for the Fatherland (Russia): (Benefit, honour and glory)
Order of the Netherlands Lion: (Power ennobles)
Order of Orange-Nassau: (I will maintain)
Order of the Polar Star (Sweden): (It knows no decline)
Order of Saint Andrew (Russia): (For faith and loyalty)
Order of St. George (Russia): (For service and bravery)
Order of St. Olav (Norway): (Justice and truth)
Order of the Seraphim (Sweden): (Jesus, saviour of men)
Order of the Star of Romania: (In Faith is the Salvation)
Order of the Sword (Sweden): (For Fatherland)
Order of the Tower and Sword (Portugal): (Valour, Loyalty and Merit)
Order of the White Eagle (Poland): (For Fatherland and Nation)
Order of the White Lion (Czech Republic): (Truth Prevails)
Order of the White Rose of Finland: (For the Well-Being of the Fatherland)

Holy See

Order of Pius IX: (By virtue and merit)
Order of St. Gregory the Great: (For God and Prince)
Order of St. Sylvester: (Much in a small space)

United Kingdom

George Cross: For Gallantry
Order of the Bath: (Three joined in one)

Ontario

Hamilton: Together Aspire, Together Achieve
Ottawa: Advance Ottawa
Toronto: Diversity Our Strength
Sarnia: (Sarnia Always)

Quebec

Montreal: (Salvation through harmony)
Province of Quebec: (I remember)
Quebec City, Quebec: (I shall put God's gift to good use)

Saskatchewan

Regina: (Let Regina flourish)

Europe

Amsterdam: (Valiant, Steadfast, Compassionate)
Bordeaux: (The fleur-de-lis alone rules over the moon, the waves, the castle, and the lion)
Brescia: (Brescia faithful)
Bruges:
Bucharest: (The Homeland and my right)
Douglas: (Government within a government)
Frankfurt: (Strong in justice)
Gdańsk: (Neither rashly nor timidly)
Gdynia: (Gdynia—a city built of sea and dreams)
Genoa: (Liberty)
Kaunas: (Love justice, landlords)
Łódź: (Big boat out of a small one)
Madrid: (On water I was built, My walls are made of fire, this is my ensign and escutcheon)
Marseille: (By her great deeds, Marseille shines in the world)
Nancy, France: (I'm not touched with impunity)
Nantes: (Neptune favours the traveller)
Nice: (City of Nice)
Oporto, Portugal: (Antique, highly noble, always faithful, unvanquished Oporto City)
Paris: (Tossed by the waves, she does not founder)
Prague: (Prague, head of the republic). Formerly: Praga caput regnum (Prague, head of the kingdom)
Rotterdam: (Stronger by struggle)
Seville: (It [Seville] has not abandoned me)
Sofia: Raste, no ne staree (Bulgarian: Grows, but does not age)
The Hague: (Peace and Justice)
Toulon: (Small things increase by concord)
Toulouse: (For Toulouse, always more)
Valletta: (The most humble city)
Vilnius: (Unity, justice, hope)
Warsaw: (Always invincible)
Żebbuġ, Malta: (Evergreen)

Indonesia

Jakarta: Jaya Raya (Victory and glorious)
Bandung: Gemah Ripah Wibawa Mukti (rich soil, prosperous people)
: Rarasing Rasa Wiwaraning Praja, a Javanese sengkala, (referring to the year of 1966), people's harmonious feeling for entering a gate of prosperity
Karawang: Pangkal Perjuangan (Struggle starting point)
Bali: Bali Dwipa Jaya (Glorious Bali Island)
Aceh : Pancacita (Five purposes)

India

Kolkata (Calcutta): Purosree Bibardhan (Bengali: Progress of the city)
Mumbai: Yato Dharmastato Jaya (यतो धर्मस्ततो जय) (Sanskrit: Where there is righteousness, there shall be victory). Pre-independence motto: Urbs Primis in Indis (India's first city)
Kerala: Ever To Be The Best (Tolins World School)
Tamil Nadu வாய்மையே வெல்லும் (Tamil) (Truth alone triumphs)

Republic of Ireland

Cork: (A safe harbour for ships)
Dublin: (Happy the city where citizens obey)
Dún Laoghaire: Ó Chuan go Sliabh (From the harbour to the mountain)
Limerick: (An ancient city well versed in the arts of war)
Waterford: (Waterford remains the untaken city)

Latin America

Nuevo León, Mexico: (Always ascending)
São Paulo: (I am not led, I lead)

New Zealand

Auckland: Advance
Christchurch: (Founded in Faith, Rich in the Fulfillment thereof, Strong in Hope for the Future).
Dunedin: (By following in the footsteps of our forefathers)
Nelson, New Zealand: (Let him, who has earned it, bear the palm)
Wellington: (Supreme by position)

United Kingdom

England

Berkshire

Reading: (From God and the Queen)
Slough: Serve with honour
Milton Keynes: By knowledge, design, and understanding
Peterborough: Upon this rock
Borough of Halton: (Industry fills the ship)
Runcorn: (Fill the ship with goods)
Widnes: (Industry enriches)

City of London

(Lord direct us)
Plymouth: (The strongest tower is the name of Jehovah)
Barnet: (Unity makes service)
Bury: Forward in unity
Canterbury: (Hail, Mother England)

Norfolk

Norwich: Do different

Northumbria

Newcastle upon Tyne: (Triumph by brave defence) [5<nowiki></nowiki>]

Suffolk

Felixstowe: Felix sto we (Happy we stand)

Surrey

Elmbridge: (Until the rivers cease to flow)

Yorkshire

Bradford: Progress, Industry, Humanity
Calderdale: (Industry, Skill, Foresight)
Leeds: (For the king and the law)
Rotherham: By Industry and Honour
Sheffield: (With God's help, our work is successful)
Wakefield: Persevere and Prosper
Yorkshireman's Motto: 'Ear all, see all, say nowt;Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt;And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt –Allus do it fer thissen.[11]

Scotland

Aberdeen: (Good agreement)
Arbroath: Propter libertatem (Latin: For Freedom)
Braemar: (Make sure)
Clydebank: (By work and by knowledge)
Dingwall: Salve corona
Duns: (Duns beats all)
East Kilbride: Prosper but Dreid
Edinburgh: Nisi Dominus ()
Falkirk: (Strike one, strike all – easier fight with the devil than the children of Falkirk)
Forfar: Ut quocunque paratus
Galashiels: (Sour Plums)
Glasgow: Let Glasgow Flourish
Irvine: (The good cause triumphs in the end)
Jedburgh: (With vigour and success)
Kelso: (Do right — fear nought)
Kinross: (Sure)
Lerwick: Dispecta est et Thule
Orkney Islands: Boreas domus mare amicus (Latin: The North our home, the sea our friend)
Perth: (For the King, the Law and the People)
Port Glasgow: (Three and four times a year revisiting the Atlantic with impunity)
Rosehearty: (Strive always, Rosehearty)
St Andrews: (While I breathe I hope)
Selkirk: At spreta incolumem vita defendere famam
Shetland Islands: (By law shall the land be built up)
Thurso: (Walk towards God)

Northern Ireland

County Antrim

Antrim: Per Angusta ad Augusta
Ballyclare: (By work and integrity)
Ballymoney: Goodwill to all People
Belfast: (What shall we give in return for so much)
Carrickfergus: (The glory of the Old made New)
Larne: (Powerful With the Sickle and on the Sea)
Lisburn: (I will arise from the fire)
Newtownabbey: (Multi in uno resurgent)

County Armagh

Armagh: In Concilio Consilium
Craigavon: Together we progress
Lurgan: Be just and fear not
Portadown: ???

County Down

Ards: (Faithful and Brave)
Bangor: Beannchor
Banbridge: (By God and Industry)
East Down: Ever looking forward
Newtownards: Fidelis atque Fortis

County Fermanagh

Enniskillen: Ut proavi in Deo confidemus
Fermanagh: Feor Magh Eanagh

County Londonderry

Coleraine: Cuil Rathain
Limavady: (Let there be no ill-will)
Derry: (Life, truth, victory)
Magherafelt: (With Faithfulness and Service)
Moyle:

County Tyrone

Cookstown: Forward
Dungannon:
Omagh: Oigh Magh

Wales

Cardiff: Y Ddraig Goch Ddyry Cychwyn (Welsh: The red dragon leads the way)
Merthyr Tydfil: Nid Cadern Ond Brodyrdde (Welsh: No strength but in fellowship)
Llandudno: Hardd Hafan Hedd (Welsh: Beautiful haven of peace)
Newport: Terra Marique (By land and sea)

United States

California

Adelanto: Progress through unity
Alameda: (Prosperity from the land and sea)
Banning: Proud History, Prosperous Tomorrow
Berkeley: Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The first four Acts already past, / A fifth shall close the Drama with the day; / Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Carson: Future Unlimited
Ceres: Together We Achieve
Del Mar: (Much in little)
Downey: Future Unlimited
Eastvale: Family, Community, Diversity
El Centro: Shining with Opportunity
Eureka: (I have found it)
Garden Grove: (Let envy be absent)Gardena: Freeway City
Half Moon Bay: (Live, work, play)
Hanford: Planning Tomorrows
Kerman: Community Comes First
Lanare: Building from the Ground Up
Manhattan Beach: Sun, Sand, Sea
Millbrae: A Place in the Sun
Monterey: (Onward)
Ontario: Balanced Community
Orange Cove: Honoring Our Past, Embracing Our Future, Come Grow With Us; In God We Trust
Paradise: In Harmony with Nature
Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test
Rialto: Bridge to Progress
San Diego: (Always vigilant)
San Francisco: (Gold in peace, iron in war)
Santa Fe Springs: (Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law)
Upland: Madonna of the Trail

Florida

Palm Bay: A Perfect Place to Grow

Illinois

Chicago: (City in a garden)

Indiana

East Chicago: (We progress)
Fort Wayne: Ke-ki-on-ga
Hammond: Land of Calumet
South Bend: Peace
Valparaiso: Vale of Paradise

Iowa

State of Iowa: Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain

Kentucky

Campbellsville: (City in the middle of the commonwealth)

Massachusetts

Commonwealth of Massachusetts: (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty)
Boston: (God be with us as He was with our fathers)
Somerville: Municipal Freedom Gives National Strength

Maryland

Baltimore: Believe

Michigan

Detroit: (We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes)
Grand Rapids: (strength in activity)

Minnesota

Minneapolis: En Avant (Forward)

North Carolina

North Carolina State Motto: (To be rather than to seem)

Ohio

Centerville: Progress, Stability
Chillicothe: (Ohio's first capital)
Cincinnati: (Unity assists)
Cleveland: Progress & Prosperity
Coldwater: The family is our most important product
Dublin: where yesterday meets tomorrow
Fairborn: Tradition, Innovation
Obetz: For Work, For Play, For Everyone
Parma: Progress Through Partnerships
Reading: (We Try Our Best)
St. Marys: Where Living is a Pleasure; (City amid fields)
Streetsboro: Gateway to Progress
Toledo: (To work is to pray)
Union: Sheets Rifle

Oregon

Oregon State Motto: She flies with her own wings
Portland, Oregon: The City that Works

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia: (Let brotherly love continue)

Texas

Austin, Texas: Friendship

Virginia

Virginia State Motto: (Thus always to tyrants)
Richmond, Virginia: (Such is the way to the Stars)

British counties

England

Traditional

Bedfordshire: Constant Be
Buckinghamshire: (No stepping back)
Cambridgeshire: (Through waves, through fields)
Cheshire: (By the right and dignity of the sword)
Cornwall: (One and all)
Cumberland: (I carry through)
Derbyshire: (By good counsel)
Devon: (By divine aid)
Durham: Faith, foresight and industry
Dorset: Who's Afear'd
Essex: Many minds, one heart
Gloucestershire: (Ever forward)
Hampshire:
Herefordshire: (This fair land is the gift of God)
Hertfordshire: Trust and fear not
Huntingdonshire: (By work everything flourishes)
Kent: (Unconquered)
Lancashire: (In counsel is wisdom)
Leicestershire: For'ard For'ard
Lincolnshire: (Perseverance conquers)
Middlesex:
Norfolk:
Northamptonshire: (The Rose—Emblem of Harmony)
Northumberland: Northumberland
Nottinghamshire: (Progress with wisdom)
Oxfordshire: (Dare to be wise)
Rutland: (Much in little)
Shropshire: (Let Salop flourish)
Somerset: (All the people of Somerset)
Staffordshire: The knot unites
Suffolk: (Direct our work)
Surrey:
Sussex: We wunt be druv (Sussaxon dialect: We won't be driven)
Warwickshire: United to serve
Westmorland:
Yorkshire, East Riding: Tradition and Progress
Yorkshire, North Riding:
Yorkshire, West Riding: (Heed counsel)
Wiltshire:
Worcestershire:

Ceremonial

Bristol: (Virtue and hard work)
Cumbria: (I shall lift up mine eyes unto the mountains)
East Sussex:
Greater London:
Greater Manchester: Ever Vigilant
Isle of Wight: All this beauty is of God
Merseyside: Unity in the Service of All
North Yorkshire: (Stronger by union)
South Yorkshire: Each shall strive for the Welfare of All
Tyne and Wear:
West Midlands: Forward in Unity
West Sussex:
West Yorkshire: By Effort Achieve

Former

Avon:
Cleveland: Endeavour
Hereford and Worcester:
Humberside: United we Flourish

Scotland

Aberdeen: Bon Accord
Angus: (Trust in Angus)
Ayr: God Shaw the Right
Banff: (With hope and courage)
Caithness: Commit thy Wark to God
Clackmannan: Leuk aboot ye
Dumfries:
Dunbarton: (Land of the elm trees)
East Lothian:
Fife: (By virtue and by industry)
Inverness: (For the good of the county)
Kincardine: (Praise to God)
Kinross: For all Time
Kirkcudbright:
Lanark:
Midlothian:
Moray: (In hope)
Nairn: Unite and be Mindful
Orkney: (Home to the winds, friend of the sea)
Peebles: (There is increase by swimming against the stream)
Perth: (For law and liberty)
Renfrew:
Ross and Cromarty: Dread God and Do Well
Roxburgh: (Yield not to misfortunes [evil things] but go on more boldly against them)
Selkirk:
Stirling:
Sutherland: (Cling to thy heritage with diligence)
West Lothian: Aye for the Common Weal
Wigtown:
Zetland: (With laws shall this land be built)

Wales

Traditional

Anglesey: (Anglesey mother of Wales)
Brecknock: (Unity, peace, prosperity)
Caernarfon: (The strength of Gwynedd)
Carmarthen: (A free people a prosperous country)
Cardigan or Ceredigion: (A nation's wealth is freedom)
Denbigh: (God is sufficient)
Flint: (The best shield is justice)
Glamorgan: (He that endureth, overcometh)
Merioneth or Merionydd: (While the sea lasts, so shall Merionethshire)
Monmouth: (Faithful to both)
Montgomery: (Powys paradise of Wales)
Pembroke: (Out of unity is strength)
Radnor: (Higher and higher)

Ceremonial

Clwyd: (The shield of justice is God)
Dyfed: (A free people, a prosperous country) – as Carmarthenshire
Gwent: (Faithful to both) – as Monmouthshire
Gwynedd: (The strength of Gwynedd) – as Caernarfonshire
Mid Glamorgan: (He who suffers, conquers) – as Glamorgan
Powys: (Unity and freedom)
South Glamorgan: (The city and the vale)
West Glamorgan: (The just are strong)