Examples of Common Core Values
Core values are the fundamental beliefs of a person or organisation. They can be fluid over time, changing with the priorities of the entity that holds them. These common core values help to guide thoughts, behaviour patterns, decision making and goal-setting.
Living by your own personal core values is vital for a sense of emotional centre and wellbeing. This list is a companion to our full article on Living by Your Core Values.
The following are some examples, but this list is not exhaustive.
Moral and Ethical Values
What is Important in the World?
- Altruism
- Animal Rights
- Anti-Racism
- Authority
- Charity
- Citizenship
- Community
- Compassion
- Contribution
- Cooperation
- Empathy
- Environmental Protection
- Equality
- Ethics
- Fairness
- Generosity
- Giving
- Hope
- Innovation
- Justice
- Kindness
- Lawfulness
- Natural Living
- Non-Violence
- Peace
- Social Justice
- Sustainability
- Unity
Relationship and Social Values
What is Important When Dealing With Others?
- Affection
- Caring
- Commitment
- Communication
- Connection
- Courtesy
- Devotion
- Faithfulness
- Fame
- Family
- Forgiveness
- Friendliness
- Friendship
- Harmony
- Honesty
- Influence
- Inspiring
- Intimacy
- Leadership
- Listening
- Love
- Loyalty
- Promise-keeping
- Protecting Others
- Quality Time
- Reciprocity
- Respect
- Romance
- Selflessness
- Service to Others
- Sharing
- Showing Appreciation
- Sincerity
- Status
- Support
- Teamwork
- Tolerance
- Trust
- Trustworthiness
- Welcoming
Effort and Professional Values
What is Important When Doing Things?
- Accomplishment
- Accuracy
- Autonomy
- Challenge
- Competency
- Conscientiousness
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Security
- Hard Work
- Management
- Mentorship
- Pride in Your Work
- Problem-Solving
- Productivity
- Professionalism
- Profit
- Prosperity
- Recognition
- Resourcefulness
- Responsibility
- Results-oriented
- Rigour
- Skilfulness
- Thorough
- Transparency
- Victory
- Wealth
- Winning
- Work Ethic
Individual Values
What is Important Inside?
- Acceptance
- Accountability
- Achievement
- Adaptability
- Adventure
- Ambition
- Amusement
- Artistry
- Assertiveness
- Authenticity
- Balance
- Beauty
- Bravery
- Calmness
- Charisma
- Cleanliness
- Cleverness
- Comedy
- Comfort
- Common Sense
- Confidence
- Conformity
- Consistency
- Contentment
- Control
- Conviction
- Courage
- Creation
- Creativity
- Credibility
- Curiosity
- Decisiveness
- Dedication
- Dependability
- Determination
- Dignity
- Discipline
- Discovery
- Efficiency
- Emotional Intelligence
- Enjoyment
- Enthusiasm
- Exhilaration
- Exploration
- Faith
- Fearless
- Freedom
- Fun
- Grace
- Gratitude
- Growth
- Happiness
- Health
- Honour
- Humility
- Humour
- Imagination
- Independence
- Individuality
- Inquisitive
- Insightfulness
- Integrity
- Intelligence
- Joy
- Knowledge
- Laughter
- Learning
- Leisure
- Liberty
- Logic
- Mastery
- Maturity
- Moderation
- Modesty
- Non-Conformity
- Open-Mindedness
- Optimism
- Organization
- Originality
- Passion
- Patience
- Performance
- Persistence
- Personal Development
- Personal Expression
- Playfulness
- Pleasure
- Poise
- Popularity
- Positive Attitude
- Positive Impact
- Power
- Purpose
- Realistic
- Recreation
- Reflective
- Reliability
- Religion
- Reputation
- Restraint
- Righteousness
- Risk
- Satisfaction
- Saving Money
- Security
- Self-control
- Self-discipline
- Self-preservation
- Self-reliance
- Self-respect
- Serenity
- Simplicity
- Smart
- Spirituality
- Spontaneity
- Stability
- Strength
- Structure
- Success
- Talent
- Thankful
- Thoughtfulness
- Tidiness
- Timeliness
- Toughness
- Tradition
- Tranquillity
- Travel
- Truth
- Understanding
- Uniqueness
- Valour
- Vigour
- Vitality
- Vivaciousness
- Warmth
- Wellness
- Wisdom
- Wit
- Wonder Work-Life Balance
Making choices in line with your personal values is essential. If you want guidance on why this is and how to bring your life more in line with your values, check out this post – Living by core values
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