List of Mottos - Municipalities

Municipalities

• Aberdeen: Bon Accord (French: Good Agreement)
• 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
• Austin, Texas: Keep Austin Weird
• Aylesbury Vale: Concordia Prorsum (Forward In Harmony)
• Ballyclare: Industria et Probitate (By Work and Integrity)
• Baltimore: Believe
• Bandung: Gemah Ripah Wibawa Mukti (rich soil, prosperous people)
• Banyumas: 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"
• Belfast: Pro tanto quid retribuamus (What shall we give in return for so much)
• Bexley: Boldly and Rightly
• Birmingham: Forward
• Blacktown: Progress
• Blyth Valley: We Grow by Industry
• Boston: Sicut patribus sit deus nobis (God be with us as He was with our fathers)
• Bournemouth: Pulchritudo et salubritas (beauty and health)
• Braemar: Mak Siccar (Scots: Make sure)
• Brentwood, Essex: Ardens Fide (Latin: burning with faith)
• Brisbane: Meliora sequimur (We aim for better things)
• Bromley: Servire Populo (To serve the people)
• Brooklyn: Eendraght Maeckt Maght (In Unity, There is Strength)
• Burnley: Hold To The Truth
• Bristol: Virtue et Industria (virtue and hard work)
• Camden: Non Sibi sed Toti (Not for oneself, but for all)
• Carlisle: Be just and fear not
• 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
• Christchurch, Dorset: Where time is pleasant
• Clackmannanshire: Leuk aboot ye (Scots)
• Clydebank: Labore et Scientia (By Work and by Knowledge)
• Cork: Statio Bene Fida Carinis (A Safe Harbour For Ships)
• Coventry: Camera Principis (The Prince's Chamber)
• 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)
• Darwin, Northern_Territory: Progrediamur (Let us go Forward)
• Derry: 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 cheusthie jeh Kiannoortys (Manx: Government within a Government)
• Dublin: Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas (Happy the city where citizens obey)
• Dún Laoghaire: Ó Chuan go Sliabh (From the Harbour to the Mountain)
• Duns: Duns Dings Aw (Scots)
• Ealing: Progress With Unity
• East Kilbride: Prosper but Dreid
• Edinburgh: Nisi Dominus frustra (Except the Lord in vain. Psalm 127)
• Elmbridge: Dum Defluant Amnes (Until the rivers run dry)
• Enfield: By Industry Ever Stronger
• Epsom: None Such
• Exeter: Semper fidelis
• Falkirk: Touch Ane, Touch Aw - Better meddle wi the Deil than the bairns o Fawkirk (Scots)
• Forfar: Ut quocunque paratus
• Frankfurt: Stark im Recht (German: Strongly right)
• Galashiels: Soor Ploums (Scots)
• 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)
• Grand Rapids: Motu Viget
• Greenwich: We Govern by Serving
• Hagley: Let Darkness Stay Below
• Halifax, Nova Scotia: E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea)
• Hamilton, Ontario: Together Aspire, Together Achieve
• Harwich: Omnia Bona Bonis (To the good all things are good)
• Havering: Liberty
• Hillingdon: Forward
• Hounslow: Iuncti Progrediamur (Let us progress together)
• Ironton, Ohio: Gateway to Southern Ohio!
• Irvine, North Ayrshire: Tandem bona causa triumphat (The good cause triumphs in the end)
• Jedburgh: Strenue et Prospere (With vigour and success)
• Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada: Salus et Opes (Health and Abundance)
• Karawang: Pangkal Perjuangan (struggle starting point)
• Kelso: Dae Richt - Fear Nocht (Scots)
• Kendal: Pannus mihi panis (wool is my bread)
• Kinross: Siccar (Scots: Sure)
• Kolkatta (Calcutta): Purosree Bibardhan (Bengali: Progress of the city)
• 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)
• Limerick: Urbs Antiqua Fuit Studiisque Asperrima Belli (an ancient city well versed in the arts of war)
• Lisburn: Ex Igne Resurgam (I will arise from the fire)
• Liverpool: Not For Ourselves, But For The Whole World
• Llandudno: Hardd Hafan Hedd (Welsh: Beautiful haven of peace)
• Łódź: Ex navicula navis (Big boat out of a small one)
• City of London: Domine dirige nos (Lord direct us)
• Mablethorpe: Amoeniora Litora Nostra (Our shores are more delightful)
• Manchester: Concilio et Labore (By wisdom and effort)
• Marseille: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis (By her great deeds, Marseille shines in the world)
• 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
• Minneapolis, Minnesota: En Avant (Forward)
• Montreal: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony)
• 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)
• 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
• Northwich: Sal est vita (Salt is life)
• Nottingham: Vivit Post Funera Virtus (Virtue lives on after death)
• Nuevo Leon, Mexico: Semper Ascendens (always ascending)
• Oldham: Sapere aude (Have courage to be wise)
• Ottawa: Advance Ottawa
• Oxford: Fortis est veritas (Truth is strong)
• Palm Bay: A Perfect Place to Grow
• Paris: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Tossed by the waves, she does not founder)
• Penwith: Kensa ha Dewetha (Cornish: First and Last)
• Peterborough: Upon This Rock
• Philadelphia: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue)
• 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
• Provo, Utah: America's Most Liveable City
• Quebec City, Quebec: Don de Dieu feray valoir (I shall put God's gift to good use)
• Reading: A Deo et Regina (With God and Queen)
• 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 (Scots)
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea: Quam Bonum In Unum Habitare (What a good thing it is to dwell together in unity)
• Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead: In Unitate Felicitas (In unity, happiness)
• Rugby, Warwickshire: Floreat Rugbeia Major (May Greater Rugby Flourish)
• Runnymede: In Freedom We Serve
• 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: Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra (Gold in Peace, Iron in War)
• São Paulo: Non ducor, duco (Latin: I am not led, I lead)
• Selkirk: At spreta incolumem vita defendere famam
• Sheffield: Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit (With God's help our labour is successful)
• Sofia: Raste, no ne staree (Bulgarian: Grows, but does not age)
• 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)
• Southwark: United to Serve
• Spelthorne: Ad Solem Prospicimus (We shall look forward to the day)
• St Andrews: Dum spiro spero (While I Breathe I Hope)
• Sutton: Per ardua in fide servite Deo (through difficulties serve God in faith)
• Sydney: I take but I surrender
• 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 tae God (Scots)
• 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)
• West Wiltshire: Know Thy Contree
• Westminster: Custodi Civitatem Domine (Guard the City, O Lord)
• Wigan: Ancient and Loyal
• Winnipeg, Manitoba: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of a Host)
• Wolverhampton: Out of darkness, cometh light
• Valparaiso, Indiana: Vale of Paradise
• Valletta: Citta Umilissima (The most humble city)
• Żebbuġ, Malta: Semper Virens (Evergreen)