Per Crucem vincemus
Through the cross we shall conquer.
I went to Catholic School and it was a wonderful school. Still to this day has an excellent reputation
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And then there was the school I should have gone to 
“Semper debeatis percutis ictu primo”
and
“In flagrante delicto”
and
“Floreat … ………? (Guess where!)
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Floreat Suttona
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At the time I attended, it was Virtue et Labore, but it might have changed now it does not take in boarders.
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Same here, although abandon all hope all ye who enter would have sufficed, looking back I didn’t enjoy it.
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one boys school I went to didn’t need a latin motto, theirs was in English “hit them hard so it hurt” was more appropriate. I am sure the head master was a sadist
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That’s ascribed to Goethe but he did not refer to learning.
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In Omnibus Labora
Labour in all things
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True, wasn’t he just asking for them to open the shutters on his deathbed?
But since then it’s been taken to mean more knowledge, enlightenment etc
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No motto, I went to a Secondary Modern, as the Grammar School was not accessible to me. I lived in a small village. The Grammar School was two bus rides away & I could not get to there until mid morning.
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My pal said he played Hockey, at School.
I thought that was a bit posh, until I realised he couldn’t spell!
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Yes, he was and these are supposed to have been his last words.
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The “School of Philanthropy” , a Grammar School, which I’d have wished to attend only accepted about 50 students out of 1080 each year which meant you needed to have an A in almost all subjects. Its motto was a Greek one: φίλος = friend, and άνθρωπος = human. I fell short of what was required and my mum couldn’t have afforded it anyway. The secondary modern school I then attended didn’t have a motto but the one I did later on had this one: Theoria cum Praxi.
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“Sine te Domino cunta nil” which one of our teachers set to music as our school song.
In my local town in 1140 a monastery was built by one of the architectural fraternities which had received Papal permission to call themselves Free Masons; thus Kilwinning became the cradle of Freemasonry in Scotland. The device on the seal is based on an old seal of the monastery and the Latin motto - “Sine Te Domine Cuncta Nil” (Without Thee, Lord, all things are nought) is part of an inscription which appeared on a house belonging to the monastery.
There has also been rumours of the Holy Grail having been hidden in our Town which resulted in many neglected gardens being hastily attended to!
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Yes we had a motto, “Deo Non Fortuna” which roughly translates as “Trust in God and not in luck”
However, I fear that I never adhered to the sentiment… 
Are you sure about the spelling of that fourth word?
I bet some of the wags made a lot of fun of that, then!
Perhaps you were just unlucky.
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Per arts ad astra, not sure any student had any idea what that meant, but, they did understand, some students had better Blazers than others, but then, technology has allowed insight into the clean Blazer brigade, and, some did not capitalize on their virtues. 
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“Usque ad mortem bibendum”
that’s what it said on the beer mats.
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Many may not be over interested but,
The Eton College Motto appears to be:
“Floreat Eton”
Which means “May Eton Flourish” or "May Eton Prosper!
That seems to work, OK!
Boris was there!
