Below is a comprehensive list of 148 personal core values. I compiled this list of personal values by comparing other examples of values lists from many sources. I wanted to make sure I had a personal value list that was broad and all-inclusive. This core values list is organized in alphabetical order. This page supports my article: Personal core values assessment: Success and fulfillment begins with determining what you value in life. Download a printable PDF version of the list of values.
List of Personal Values
- Accountability
- Achievement
- Adventure
- Ambition
- Assertiveness
- Art
- Balance
- Beauty
- Belonging
- Boldness
- Calmness
- Carefulness
- Challenge
- Change
- Cheerfulness
- Commitment
- Community
- Compassion
- Competence
- Competitiveness
- Consistency
- Contentment
- Contribution
- Control
- Cooperation
- Correctness
- Courtesy
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Decisiveness
- Democracy
- Dependability
- Determination
- Diligence
- Discipline
- Diversity
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Ethics
- Elegance
- Empathy
- Enjoyment
- Excitement
- Equality
- Excellence
- Expertise
- Exploration
- Expressiveness
- Fairness
- Faith
- Fame
- Family
- Fitness
- Focus
- Friendship
- Financial security
- Freedom
- Fun
- Generosity
- Goodness
- Grace
- Happiness
- Hard Work
- Health
- Helping others
- Honesty
- Honor
- Humility
- Improvement
- Independence
- Influencing others
- Ingenuity
- Inquisitiveness
- Insightfulness
- Intelligence
- Integrity
- Intuition
- Joy
- Justice
- Knowledge
- Leadership
- Legacy
- Love
- Loyalty
- Making a difference
- Mastery
- Meaningful work
- Minimalism
- Money
- Nature
- Openness
- Order
- Originality
- Participation
- Perfection
- Personal growth
- Personal time
- Physical challenge
- Pleasure
- Positivity
- Power
- Practicality
- Preparedness
- Privacy
- Problem solving
- Professionalism
- Prudence
- Public service
- Purity
- Quality
- Recognition
- Relationship
- Relaxation
- Reliability
- Resourcefulness
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Results-oriented
- Risk-taking
- Security
- Serenity
- Self-care
- Self-control
- Selflessness
- Self-reliance
- Sensitivity
- Serenity
- Service
- Simplicity
- Spirituality
- Spontaneity
- Stability
- Status
- Strength
- Structure
- Success
- Support
- Teamwork
- Thoroughness
- Thoughtfulness
- Timeliness
- Tolerance
- Uniqueness
- Unity
- Usefulness
- Vitality
- Wealth
- Wisdom
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