Core Values List: Over 200 Personal Values to Discover What'south Most Important to You

past Scott Jeffrey

What's near important to you lot?Your core values decide how you respond this question. Our core values highlight what nosotros stand up for. Core values guide our behaviors, decisions, and action.

When y'all know what you value, you can live in accord with those values. This leads to greater fulfillment. When you don't know your values, you violate them every day. This creates internal tension. And this tension triggers destructive habits and regressive behavior.

How to Determine Your Personal Values

In the 7 Steps to Discovering Your Cadre Values, I offer a free step-by-step process to find your personal values.

When people hear nearly core values, they often want to select them from a listing of personal values. It seems easier to selection them from a carte.

Simply every bit I wrote in this guide:

Values aren't selected; they're discovered. We don'tchoose our values. Our valuesreveal themselves to us.

If you lot start with a list of cadre values, your witting mind will evaluate which values appear "amend" than others. You will select personal values that "sound good" based on your desired cocky-epitome.

Instead of picking from a listing, in Step ii of the personal values process, I offer exercises to detect your personal values.

A List of Over 200 Personal Values

However, it is useful to scan a core values list to prime yourself before the exercises.

And it's beneficial to review a listing of core values after you begin your list to decide if you lot missed something of import.

As a reference, here'south a listing of 230 personal values:

Acceptance
Accomplishment
Accountability
Accuracy
Achievement
Adaptability
Alacrity
Altruism
Appetite
Amusement
Assertiveness
Attentive
Awareness
Residuum
Beauty
Boldness
Bravery
Luminescence
Calm
Candor
Capable
Careful
Certainty
Challenge
Charity
Cleanliness
Clear
Clever
Comfort
Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Community
Compassion
Competence
Concentration
Confidence
Connectedness
Consciousness
Consistency
Contentment
Contribution
Control
Conviction
Cooperation
Courage
Courtesy
Creation
Inventiveness
Credibility
Curiosity
Decisive
Decisiveness
Dedication
Dependability
Determination
Evolution
Devotion
Dignity
Discipline
Discovery
Drive
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Empathy
Empower
Endurance
Free energy
Enjoyment
Enthusiasm
Equality
Ethical
Excellence
Experience

Exploration
Expressive
Fairness
Family
Famous
Fearless
Feelings
Ferocious
Fidelity
Focus
Foresight
Fortitude
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Generosity
Genius
Giving
Goodness
Grace
Gratitude
Greatness
Growth
Happiness
Hard work
Harmony
Health
Honesty
Laurels
Promise
Humility
Humor
Imagination
Improvement
Independence
Individuality
Innovation
Inquisitive
Insightful
Inspiring
Integrity
Intelligence
Intensity
Intuitive
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Lawful
Leadership
Learning
Freedom
Logic
Love
Loyalty
Mastery
Maturity
Meaning
Moderation
Motivation
Openness
Optimism
Guild
Organisation
Originality
Passion
Patience
Peace
Performance
Persistence
Playfulness
Poise
Potential
Power

Nowadays
Productivity
Professionalism
Prosperity
Purpose
Quality
Realistic
Reason
Recognition
Recreation
Reflective
Respect
Responsibility
Restraint
Results-oriented
Reverence
Rigor
Risk
Satisfaction
Security
Self-reliance
Selfless
Sensitivity
Tranquility
Service
Sharing
Significance
Silence
Simplicity
Sincerity
Skill
Skillfulness
Smart
Solitude
Spirit
Spirituality
Spontaneous
Stability
Status
Stewardship
Strength
Structure
Success
Support
Surprise
Sustainability
Talent
Teamwork
Temperance
Thankful
Thorough
Thoughtful
Timeliness
Tolerance
Toughness
Traditional
Tranquility
Transparency
Trust
Trustworthy
Truth
Understanding
Uniqueness
Unity
Valor
Victory
Vigor
Vision
Vitality
Wealth
Welcoming
Winning
Wisdom
Wonder

Personal Core Values List by Category

When yous go through the core values procedure, it's helpful to ensure you didn't miss any fundamental categories important to you.

I've curated the above cadre values listing into categories for your review. But please take these categories loosely. They will change based on the perspective y'all concord.

Integrity
Accountability
Candor
Commitment
Dependability
Dignity
Honesty
Honor
Responsibility
Sincerity
Transparency
Trust
Trustworthy
Truth

Feelings
Acceptance
Comfort
Compassion
Contentment
Empathy
Grace
Gratitude
Happiness
Hope
Inspiring
Irreverent
Joy
Kindness
Love
Optimism
Passion
Peace
Poise
Respect
Reverence
Satisfaction
Serenity
Thankful
Tranquility
Welcoming

Spirituality
Adaptability
Altruism
Balance
Clemency
Communication
Community
Connectedness
Consciousness
Contribution
Cooperation
Courtesy
Devotion
Equality
Ethical
Fairness
Family
Fidelity
Friendship
Generosity
Giving
Goodness
Harmony
Humility
Loyalty
Maturity
Meaning
Selfless
Sensitivity
Service
Sharing
Spirit
Stewardship
Support
Sustainability
Teamwork
Tolerance
Unity

Achievement
Accomplishment
Capable
Challenge
Challenge
Competence
Brownie
Decision
Development
Drive
Effectiveness
Empower
Endurance
Excellence
Famous
Greatness
Growth
Difficult work
Improvement
Influence
Intensity
Leadership
Mastery
Motivation
Performance
Persistence
Potential
Ability
Productivity
Professionalism
Prosperity
Recognition
Results-oriented
Risk
Significance
Skill
Skillfulness
Condition
Success
Talent
Victory
Wealth
Winning

Creativity
Creation
Curiosity
Discovery
Exploration
Expressive
Imagination
Innovation
Inquisitive
Intuitive
Openness
Originality
Uniqueness
Wonder

Enjoyment
Amusement
Enthusiasm
Experience
Fun
Humor
Playfulness
Recreation
Spontaneous
Surprise

Presence
Alertness
Attentive
Awareness
Beauty
At-home
Clear
Concentration
Focus
Silence
Simplicity
Solitude

Intelligence
Brilliance
Clever
Common sense
Decisiveness
Foresight
Genius
Insightful
Knowledge
Learning
Logic
Openness
Realistic
Reason
Reflective
Smart
Thoughtful
Understanding
Vision
Wisdom

Strength
Ambition
Assertiveness
Boldness
Confidence
Dedication
Discipline
Ferocious
Fortitude
Persistence
Ability
Restraint
Rigor
Self-reliance
Temperance
Toughness
Vigor
Will

Freedom
Independence
Individuality
Liberty

Courage
Bravery
Conviction
Fearless
Valor

Order
Accuracy
Conscientious
Certainty
Cleanliness
Consistency
Control
Decisive
Economic system
Justice
Lawful
Moderation
Organisation
Security
Stability
Construction
Thorough
Timeliness

Wellness
Energy
Vitality

The Ultimate Core Values Workshop

Since I published the original version of seven Steps to Discovering Your Personal Values and this values list in 2017, over 1.5 million individuals have begun their journey to discover their values.

Only afterwards surveying thousands of subscribers, I learned that many individuals get stuck along this discovery process.

  • How do you know if you've selected the "correct" values?
  • How do yous prioritize and pick only a few values? (3 out of a 200+!?!)
  • And how the heck do I live these values each 24-hour interval?

And and so, after months of development, I've refined the above process and crafted it into a step-by-footstep course.

If you lot're interested in finding your authentic values and y'all're committed to living your values each day …

Check out the details for The Core Values Workshop here >>

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