Labor omnia vincit

The phrase is adapted from Virgil's Georgics, Book I, lines 145–6: ...Labor omnia vicit / improbus ("Steady work overcame all things").

The College of Engineering, Guindy in Chennai, India and founded in the year 1794 has the phrase "Labor Omnia Vincit" in its logo.

It is also the motto of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, as well as the city of Polokwane, formerly known as Pietersburg in South Africa.

It is also the motto of West Bromwich Albion FC • In cinema this slogan was used in a landmark French picture "Le Voyage dans la lune" or "A Trip To The Moon" a silent film brought to life in 1902 by director Georges Méliès.

Celebrating the triumph, a statue is brought forth with a scholar pointing to the heavens with the word SCIENCE surrounded by olive branches on the base, above this states the term LABOR • OMNIA • VINCIT Many educational institutions have adopted the phrase as a motto, including: Mitchell High School, Durban, South Africa Sierra Leone (West Africa) Saint Xaviers Institution.