Personal Values List

Below is a list of personal values commonly used for personal development. This list will give you an idea of common and unique personal values (also called core values).

My recommendation is to scan the entire list of personal values and tick off any that resonate with you. Once you have done that, get specific. Make a list of your Top 10 Personal Values, then select your Top 3 to focus on. Let these guide your choices and support your decision making.

Personal Values List

  • Accessibility

  • Accountability

  • Accuracy

  • Achievement

  • Adaptability

  • Adventurousness

  • Altruism

  • Ambition

  • Assertiveness

  • Balance

  • Being the best

  • Belonging

  • 
Boldness

  • 
Calmness

  • 
Carefulness

  • 
Challenge


  • Cheerfulness

  • Clear-mindedness

  • Commitment


  • Community

  • 
Compassion

  • Competitiveness

  • Consistency

  • Contentment

  • 
Continuous Improvement

  • Contribution

  • Control

  • Cooperation

  • Correctness

  • Courtesy

  • Creativity

  • Curiosity

  • Decisiveness

  • Dependability

  • Determination

  • Devoutness

  • Diligence

  • Discipline

  • Discretion

  • Diversity

  • Dynamism

  • Economy

  • Effectiveness

  • Efficiency

  • Elegance

  • Empathy

  • Enjoyment

  • Enthusiasm

  • Equality

  • Excellence

  • Excitement

  • Expertise

  • Exploration

  • Expressiveness

  • Fairness

  • Faith

  • Fidelity

  • Fitness

  • Fluency

  • 
Focus


  • Freedom

  • 
Fun

  • 
Generosity

  • Goodness

  • Grace


  • Growth

  • Happiness

  • Hard Work

  • Health


  • Helping Society

  • Holiness

  • Honesty

  • Honour

  • Humility

  • Inclusiveness

  • Independence

  • Ingenuity

  • Inner Harmony

  • Inquisitiveness

  • Insightfulness

  • Intelligence

  • Intellectual

  • Status

  • Intuition

  • Joy

  • Justice

  • Leadership

  • Legacy

  • Love

  • 
Loyalty

  • 
Making a difference

  • Mastery

  • 
Merit

  • 
Obedience

  • Openness

  • 
Order

  • 
Originality

  • Patriotism

  • Perfection


  • Piety

  • 
Positivity

  • Practicality

  • Preparedness

  • Professionalism

  • Prudence

  • Quality-orientation

  • Reliability

  • Resiliency

  • Resourcefulness

  • Results-oriented

  • Rigour

  • 
Security

  • Self-actualisation

  • Self-control

  • Selflessness

  • Self-reliance

  • Sensitivity

  • Serenity

  • Service

  • Shrewdness

  • Simplicity

  • Soundness

  • Speed

  • Spontaneity

  • Stability

  • Strategic

  • Strength

  • Structure

  • Success

  • Support

  • Teamwork

  • Temperance

  • Thankfulness

  • Thoroughness

  • Thoughtfulness

  • Timeliness

  • Tolerance

  • Traditionalism

  • Trustworthiness

  • Truth-seeking

  • Understanding

  • Uniqueness

  • Unity

  • Usefulness

  • Vision

  • Vitality