95 Examples of Positive Strengths

John Spacey, August 31, 2022

Positive strengths are talents and character traits that are unambiguously good. This can be contrast with strengths such as competitiveness that can be interpreted negatively depending on the context. For example, competitiveness may be important to many pursuits but could also be interpreted as an inclination not to cooperate or sacrifice to help others. The following are examples of strengths that are broadly positive.

Accountable	Adaptable
Agent of Change	Ambition / Hope / Dreams
Artistic	Backbone
Brave	Calculated Risk Taking
Calm	Capable
Caring	Collaborative
Committed	Compassionate
Computing / Computer Science / Technological Prowess	Confident
Conscientious	Constructive
Cooperative	Courage
Cultural Capital	Cultural Competence
Curious	Dependable
Design Sense	Design Thinking
Determined	Diligent
Disciplined	Dutiful
Energetic	Engaged
Experimenting / Prototyping / Testing	Friendly
Grit	Grounded
Hard Working	Helpful
Imaginative	Impartial
Industrious	Intelligent
Introspective	Inventive / Creative
Kindness	Languages
Likeable	Loyalty
Making Reasonable / Timely Decisions	Mathematics
Numeracy	Originality
Passionate	People Person
Perseverance	Persistence
Personable	Personal Presence
Planning	Polite
Pragmatic	Presentations / Public Speaking
Principled	Productive
Reasonable	Reasoning
Reflective	Relational Capital
Relationship Building	Research
Resilience / Reasonable Response to Stress	Resolve
Resourceful	Respect for Others
Respect for Time	Responsible
Science / Scientific Prowess	Self-Awareness
Self-Control	Self-Correcting
Self-Directed	Self-Improvement
Self-Starter	Sense of Urgency / Makes Good Use of Time
Sincere	Stylish
Systems Thinking	Thoughtful
Tireless	Tolerance for Disagreement
Tolerant	Troubleshooting / Problem Solving
Trustworthy	Verbal Communication
Visual Communication