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Personal qualities are characteristics that describe how an individual thinks, behaves and feels. It is common for people to be asked to list their personal qualities in job interviews, school admissions and professional development activities. In this context, it is helpful to avoid qualities that are negative, cliche or non-specific. For example, a quality such as "capable" is ambiguous because people may think "capable of what?" The following are illustrative examples of personal qualities.
Adaptable
Ambitious
Approachable
Assertive
Assured
Attentive
Calm
Candid
Careful
Caring
Collaborative
Commanding
Compassionate
Competitive
Confident
Considerate
Consistent
Constructive
Cooperative
Creative
Curious
Detail-oriented
Determined
Diligent
Diplomatic
Direct
Disciplined
Down to Earth
Eager
Earnest
Easygoing
Energetic
Enterprising
Enthusiastic
Fast Learner
Fearless
Flexible
Friendly
Generous
Gritty
Grounded
Hardworking
Helpful
Honest
Imaginative
Independent
Industrious
Inquisitive
Inventive
Kind
Lively
Logical
Meditative
Methodical
Normal
Objective
Open-minded
Optimistic
Original
Outgoing
Passionate
Personable
Polite
Positive
Practical
Pragmatic
Productive
Professional
Public-spirited
Rational
Realistic
Receptive
Relaxed
Reliable
Resilient
Resourceful
Respectful
Responsible
Responsive
Risk-taking
Self-Directed
Sincere
Social
Sympathetic
Thoughtful
Tireless
Tolerant
Tough
Traditional
Trustworthy
Unconventional
Understanding
Versatile
Warm

Summary

Personal qualities relate to your personality, habits, attitudes and capacities as a person. These are foundations for behavior that have a large impact on how individuals perform or react to different situations.

Discussion

Some personal qualities can be used to describe other people but not yourself as they are considered too positive such that it is brash to apply them to yourself. For example, brave, brilliant or lovely.
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