Family Motto Ideas

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As our kiddos are getting a little older, my husband’s and I are trying to create a family motto. We want it to reflect our Catholic values commitment to our own family in a kid friendly way. We want it to be relatively short to be easily memorized. An example might include, "In this family, we …’
Does anyone have a family motto that you would be willing to share?
 
We don’t have a family motto though I often say “hope for the best but prepare for the worst.”

Perhaps something like “we are ready willing and Abel Lord.”
(Abel being a reference to your online name of course!)
 
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We will do good even when it’s hard and even if no ones watching, because God is everywhere and we want to please Him. He loves us greatly.
 
A while back ago, I came across a link to a list of guild mottos– like, they’d have their guild heraldry, along with a motto.

So you might take a peek at it to see what other organizations have opted to choose.
 
I don’t have a family motto but I do have a fatherly motto I often said to my kids.

Might sound a bit harsh to some but if you knew me better, as they do, you would understand it’s full meaning.

It goes…

I don’t care what you know…Show me what you can do with it.

This verse isn’t where I got the saying from but now that I think about it maybe it did play a part in it’s origin.

Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

God Bless
 
“Nobis Omni flatus plena”

“We’re all full of gas”
 
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We don’t have a motto, but we have some tongue-in-cheek phrases that come out.
The favorite is probably this:
In any crisis, the first and most important order of business is to assess blame.
It is our way of saying, “how about we solve the crisis and then debrief on prevention when we’ve calmed down?” Blame doesn’t do any good except to point to how to do things differently next time, and that requires a bit of calm.

Speaking of kiddos, I wish we had a book with all the quotable quotes we have come up with over the years.
For instance, the time we were at a Christmas Mass at which the priest gathered all the children around for the homily and asked the children: What do you think the Baby Jesus saw as he was lying in the manager?
Our son’s answer: the roof of the barn.

I don’t want to de-rail your thread with quotes like that, but just to encourage you to write down the things that you and your children say that seem memorable at the time. Out of the mouths of babes…

I suppose our motto is this: Life isn’t fair. Life is good. If you think about it, you know it can’t be both.
We take it as being willing to take our blessings gratefully without pretending we are entitled to all the good things we receive.
 
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Depends on which way you want to go…
Flippant: Illigitimus non Carburundum
Religious: John 3:16
Contrarian: no generalization is true. Even this one
Scientific: The entropy of the world tends towards a maximum. Our job is to minimize that.
Practical: Never burn your bridges until you get to them.
Simple: We have no motto.
Mercenary: This Ad space for rent.
 
Our ancestral family motto suggests determination that overcomes the challenges of all earthly realms, but to share it would make my maiden surname clear to some amongst our CAF members. I hope one day to become worthy of it.
 
The “family motto” reminds me of an exercise we teachers did in the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People training. Our school teaches the 7 Habits to our students and any family members who care to learn them – we’re what’s called a “Leader In Me” school.

Anyhoo, Habit 2 is “begin with the end in mind,” and it’s about knowing who you are, what you’re about, and having a personal vision statement for your life. As we considered our own vision statements, we were encouraged to create one for our families as well.

My personal vision statement is simply “Fully Alive.” It’s a reference to the quote of St Irenaeus – “The glory of God is man fully alive; and the life of man is the vision of God.”

I work in a public school, so I keep the true meaning of my vision statement hidden in my heart at work. 😄

God will lead you in your search for something that inspires you.
 
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