"Semper fidelis" is a well known and common motto meaning: "Always faithful." Americans may know it better in the abbreviated form "semper fi", as used by the US Marine Corps.
There are various variations on "semper fidelis" including the excellent "semper et ubique fidelis", which means: "Always and everywhere faithful."
Ubique is the root of the English word ubiquitous and similarly fidelis of the word fidelity. Whilst semper is not the parent of any English word, it does survive in Spanish as siempre with the same meaning.
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