Core Values List
Know your core values to guide your life-centred design
Taking time to get to know your core values aligns what you think is important with what is actually important to you on a personal level.
Once you know your values, you can use them to guide your behaviours, decisions, and actions. You’ll know what to stand for in life and what to champion in any design process.
You can simply pick your top 10 from the list below, or go deeper with exercises that reveal your personal core values using these values discovery activities by CEO Sage.
Core Values List
Abundance
Acceptance
Accomplishment
Accountability
Accuracy
Achievement
Adaptability
Alertness
Altruism
Ambition
Amusement
Assertiveness
Attentive
Awareness
Balance
Beauty
Boldness
Bravery
Brilliance
Calm
Candor
Capable
Careful
Certainty
Challenge
Charity
Cleanliness
Clear
Clever
Comfort
Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Community
Compassion
Competence
Concentration
Confidence
Connection
Consciousness
Consistency
Contentment
Contribution
Control
Conviction
Cooperation
Courage
Courtesy
Creation
Creativity
Credibility
Culture
Curiosity
Decisiveness
Dedication
Dependability
Determination
Development
Devotion
Dignity
Discipline
Discovery
Diversity
Drive
Education
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Empathy
Empower
Endurance
Energy
Enjoyment
Enthusiasm
Environmentalism
Equality
Ethical
Excellence
Experience
Exploration
Fairness
Family
Famous
Fearless
Fidelity
Focus
Foresight
Fortitude
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Generosity
Genius
Goodness
Grace
Gratitude
Greatness
Growth
Happiness
Harmony
Health
Honesty
Honour
Hope
Humility
Humour
Identity
Imagination
Improvement
Independence
Individuality
Innovation
Inquisitive
Insightful
Inspiration
Integrity
Intelligence
Intensity
Intuition
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Lawfulness
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Logic
Love
Loyalty
Mastery
Maturity
Meaning
Moderation
Motivation
Openness
Optimism
Order
Organization
Originality
Passion
Patience
Peace
Persistence
Playfulness
Poise
Potential
Power
Presence
Privacy
Productivity
Professionalism
Prosperity
Purpose
Quality
Quality of life
Realism
Reason
Recognition
Recreation
Reflection
Resilience
Respect
Responsibility
Restraint
Reverence
Rigor
Risk
Safety
Satisfaction
Security
Self Expression
Self-reliance
Selflessness
Sensitivity
Serenity
Service
Sharing
Significance
Silence
Simplicity
Sincerity
Skillfulness
Society
Solitude
Spirituality
Spontaneity
Stability
Status
Stewardship
Strength
Structure
Success
Support
Surprise
Sustainability
Talent
Teamwork
Temperance
Thoughtfulness
Tolerance
Tradition
Tranquillity
Transparency
Trust
Truth
Uniqueness
Unity
Valour
Vigour
Vision
Vitality
Wisdom
Wonder