What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.
Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.
I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.
There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6. 5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.
I'm just saying that we need to find a better way to manifest the broader society's aspirations, politically. The key to it has to be some sort of proportional representation, which allows there to be more parties.
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can. . . well. . . go on.
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days. . . demonstrated that core character over and over again.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.
We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.