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)