Inspirational Bookmarks
Eighteen printable bookmarks with a short saying worth keeping in a book — You've Got This, Be Kind Always, Just Breathe, Progress Not Perfection, Dream Big, You Are Enough, Rest Is Productive, I Am Proud of You — each hand-lettered on a cream plate with its own picture. Mix a sheet, put a name on each one, and print a free PDF.
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Add designs first — then you can put a child’s name on each bookmark, in your pick of four typefaces.
US Letter (landscape), 5 per sheet with a cutting lane between bookmarks. Print on card stock at 100% scale (no “fit to page”).
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Eighteen sayings, four moods.
Every design puts its saying in chunky retro lettering on a cream plate so it reads over the patterned grounds — blush, sage, sky, mint, lilac, butter, graph paper — with a small picture above and a pair of daisies, stars or a heart below. Only two of the eighteen are dark: the navy night behind Shine Bright and the plum behind Rest Is Productive.
A school counsellor asked me for these. She had a drawer of bookmarks with quotes printed in a default font over a stock photo, and none of them looked like something a kid would keep. So each saying here got its own drawing first and the lettering second — the lion is the point of Be Brave, not the words.— David, Apollo’s Templates
Before you print.
What do the eighteen bookmarks say?
You've Got This, Be Kind Always, Just Breathe, Progress Not Perfection, Grow Through What You Go Through, Shine Bright, One Day at a Time, You Are Enough, Dream Big, Choose Joy, Small Steps Every Day, Be Brave, Speak Kind Words, Rest Is Productive, Today Is a Good Day, Bloom Where You Are Planted, Mistakes Help You Grow and I Am Proud of You. Each saying has its own picture — a smiling sun, a heart held in two hands, a lion, a hot-air balloon, a moon on a pillow, a prize rosette.
Is the lettering real text I can edit?
No. The sayings are drawn as outlined letterforms, part of the artwork, so they print identically on every printer and never fall back to a substitute font. What you can change is the name band under the picture — type a name on each bookmark and it prints in the design's ink colour on its own plate.
Are these suitable for a classroom or a counselling office?
That is who they were drawn for. The sayings are the kind teachers, school counsellors and librarians already put on walls — kindness, effort over perfection, rest, small steps — with nothing preachy or religious, so a mixed sheet works for a whole class. I Am Proud of You and You Are Enough are the ones most often printed one-per-child with a name on each.
Which ones print cheapest?
Today Is a Good Day, Mistakes Help You Grow and Choose Joy sit on white or pale-yellow grounds and use the least ink. Shine Bright (navy) and Rest Is Productive (deep plum) are the two dark designs and use the most; every saying sits on a cream plate, so it stays readable on either.
Updated through September 2026.