The phrase "aspirational statements" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to statements that express hopes, goals, or ideals that one aims to achieve.
Example: "The company's mission includes several aspirational statements that reflect its commitment to sustainability and innovation."
Alternatives: "goal-oriented statements" or "visionary statements".
"The sustainable development chapter comprises a series of aspirational statements and loosely worded commitments with an unclear dispute settlement mechanism.
We therefore call upon world leaders to move beyond aspirational statements and exercise a collective responsibility for planetary stewardship, seizing the opportunity offered by the Rio 2012 summit to set our world on a sustainable path.
Government claims that Labor has a $200bn budget black hole over 10 years are partly based on aspirational statements that are not Labor policy, such as restoring $19bn of foreign aid cuts, Mathias Cormann has revealed.
Asked how much of that $66bn was the price tag attached to the party's "aspirational statements", official campaign spokesman Mathias Cormann said it took in spending that Labor had called for "in one way or another".
Aspirational statements such as "the end of AIDS" have also prevailed.
The intended curriculum in various countries sets out aspirational statements for the levels of higher-order thinking to be attained by students.
"They are cost-sensitive," says one, of the commissioners.Ringfencing could also be an aspirational statement about how the global banking system should evolve.
Here Suicide Prevention Australia has recommended a target of 50% reduction in suicide deaths in 10 years, as an aspirational statement to galvanise support and action.
The reference to unalienable rights, including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," appears not in the Constitution but in the Declaration of Independence, where it served as an aspirational statement rather than as a binding legal one.
The bottom line is that you can use Twitter to talk obsessively about Justin Bieber (in 2010, an astonishing 3percentt of tweets worldwide were about the pint-size pop star) or you can use Twitter to bring to life Biz Stone's aspirational statement that, "Twitter is not a triumph of tech; it's a triumph of humanity".
There's a ton of room for improvement, which isn't a criticism so much as an aspirational statement.
