1) Greek goddess 2) Purposive effort 
Horme (Ancient Greek: Ὁρμή) is the Greek spirit personifying energetic activity, impulse or effort (to do a thing), eagerness, setting oneself in motion, and starting an action, and particularly onrush in battle. She had an altar at Athens, where mainly the divine servants and relations of Zeus (including Pheme and Aidos, as well as Athena) h...
goal-directed or purposive behaviour
(from the article `Dante`) ...system is nearly complete. In this work Dante makes his first stirring defense of the imperial tradition and, more specifically, of the Roman ...
activity directed toward a goal; purposive effort.