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[ Also see Accident Ambition Aspiration Decision Direction Idealism Intention Irresolution Luck Meaning of Life Motive Perseverance Planning Policy Resolution Will ]

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
      - Henry Brooks Adams

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
      - Oliver Cromwell,
        in a statement to M. Bellievre, recorded in the Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
      - Walter Lippmann

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
      - Edward Young

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