Core Values
Understanding your core values helps you make aligned decisions, set better boundaries, and stay grounded when life gets busy. Values guide your choices, your habits, your relationships, and your direction in life. When you know your values, you know how to live.
What Are Core Values
Core values are the principles that matter most to you. They shape behavior, guide decisions, and help you stay true to who you want to be.
Use the list below to identify your own top values.
How to Choose Your Core Values
Read through the list slowly
Highlight everything that feels important
Narrow that down to your top five
Rank them
Define what each one means to you in real life
Use them as a filter for choices and boundaries
Why Core Values Matter
Values help you stay aligned, avoid burnout, build boundaries, reduce stress, and move toward a life that feels purposeful.
List of Core Values
Abundance
Accomplishment
Accuracy
Action
Ambition
Attentiveness
Balance
Bravery
Certainty
Clarity
Commitment
Competition
Consciousness
Contentment
Cooperation
Creativity
Decisiveness
Dependability
Determination
Dignity
Discipline
Dynamism
Efficiency
Empowerment
Enjoyment
Excellence
Expertise
Fairness
Fidelity
Focus
Fortitude
Frugality
Genius
Grace
Guidance
Harmony
Helpfulness
Honesty
Hospitality
Imagination
Individuality
Inner Peace
Inspiration
Intention
Intuition
Judgment
Knowledge
Legacy
Love
Maturity
Modesty
Obedience
Optimism
Originality
Patience
Perfection
Personal Growth
Positivity
Practicality
Presence
Privacy
Professionalism
Punctuality
Quiet
Recreation
Resilience
Respect
Results
Sacrifice
Security
Self Care
Self Expression
Sensitivity
Sharing
Skill
Speed
Stability
Success
Synergy
Temperance
Thoughtfulness
Tolerance
Transformation
Truth
Variety
Vitality
Well Being
Wisdom
Work Ethic
Adaptability
Adventure
Affection
Alertness
Artistry
Authenticity
Beauty
Calm
Challenge
Cleanliness
Compassion
Adaptability
Adventure
Affection
Alertness
Artistry
Authenticity
Beauty
Calm
Challenge
Cleanliness
Compassion
Confidence
Consistency
Control
Courage
Credibility
Dedication
Depth
Development
Diplomacy
Discovery
Education
Elegance
Endurance
Enthusiasm
Excitement
Exploration
Faith
Flexibility
Foresight
Freedom
Fun
Gentleness
Gratitude
Happiness
Healing
Heroism
Honor
Humility
Impact
Influence
Innovation
Integrity
Interest
Involvement
Justice
Leadership
Liberty
Loyalty
Meaning
Mindfulness
Motivation
Open Mindedness
Order
Ownership
Peace
Perseverance
Play
Potential
Precision
Preservation
Problem Solving
Prosperity
Purpose
Rationality
Reflection
Resoluteness
Responsibility
Reverence
Safety
Self Acceptance
Self Control
Self Improvement
Serenity
Simplicity
Smart Work
Spirituality
Strength
Support
Talent
Thankfulness
Tidiness
Tradition
Transparency
Understanding
Vigor
Warmth
Wholeness
Winning
Worthiness
Accountability
Achievement
Appreciation
Assertiveness
Awareness
Belonging
Care
Charity
Collaboration
Competence
Acceptance
Accountability
Achievement
Appreciation
Assertiveness
Awareness
Belonging
Care
Charity
Collaboration
Competence
Connection
Contribution
Conviction
Courteousness
Curiosity
Delight
Desire
Devotion
Direction
Drive
Effectiveness
Empathy
Energy
Equality
Experience
Expressiveness
Family
Flow
Forgiveness
Friendship
Generosity
Giving
Growth
Hard Work
Health
Holistic Living
Hope
Humor
Independence
Ingenuity
Insight
Intensity
Intimacy
Joy
Kindness
Learning
Logic
Mastery
Mindfulness
Non Judgment
Openness
Organization
Passion
Perceptiveness
Persistence
Poise
Power
Preparedness
Prestige
Productivity
Protection
Quality
Recognition
Reliability
Resourcefulness
Rest
Rigor
Sanity
Self Awareness
Self Discipline
Self Respect
Service
Sincerity
Solitude
Spontaneity
Structure
Sustainability
Teamwork
Thoroughness
Timeliness
Tranquility
Trust
Unity
Vision
Wealth
Willpower
Wonder
Zeal
Adventure
Balance
Freedom
Joy
Purpose
Strength
Success
Wisdom
Growth
Integrity