School mottos?

"Courage, gaiety and the quiet mind".
Not too much of the last two around at the moment.

Our school motto was “Trusty and Leal” (loyal) from the Common Riding song “Up Wi the Souters”;

'Ah, qu'il est bon, le bon dieu'. 'The good God is very good '. Notre Dame when it was a girl's Catholic grammar school. I'm afraid the tautology of the motto just made us heathen girls giggle! It was a nice school though.

Altiora petimus. We strive for higher things.
Don't think many of us reached the summit of Everest, became an Archbishop or even wrote a book to the best of my knowledge but a few did okay.
Gentleness and Justice sounds much nicer, I'd be more inclined to strive for that.
Reading your posts over the years Jane10 I think you lived up to it.

Be valiant (The school hymn was ‘He who would valiant be’.)

A fo ben, bid bont. Welsh for ‘To be a leader, be a bridge’

Very kind of you LauraNorder. I'm all for justice but I'm not very gentle!

Aspire and Achieve

Labor Omnia Vincet. I think that is how you spell it - Labour Conquers All. I never thought about it when I was 16 but it is probably true!

Lampada Trado - Durham Girls Grammar School.

Per Crucem Ad Lucem
Throught the cross to the light ( more or less)

I don’t like the sound of yours NotTooOld ? all that labouring away and no fun.

Ludus supra praemium - the game is more important than the prize.
The school song was the Athenian oath set to music - we will never bring disgrace to this our city, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks.
This was an all girls high school!!

Loyal me serai durant ma vie
Faithful to you, I ever will be.

Our's was the same as the Town and County. Circumspice

or in Scots = Look Aboot Ye

Jane10

Anyone remember their school motto? Ours was 'Gentleness and Justice'. Not sure I lived up to that.

Would you have liked ‘Awa’ an’ bile yer heid’ ??

Gloria tibi Trinitas (a Trinitarian order)

‘E pluribus unum’ out of many, one.

Hardly a motto, though.

Apologies, Nan, I was referring to mine!

Ours was, 'Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter' - Courageously, Faithfully, Joyfully.

EL James (Fifty Shades of Grey) went to my school!

Semper Ad Lucem - Always to the Light. Funny how some things stick in your mind.

Honour Wisdom.

'Aut Disce Aut Discede. Either Learn Or Leave.