What Aspiration is to Ambition, is Virtue to Vice. Do you agree? If not reason out.

Let me project my view as regards the distinction between aspiration and ambition.

What is inspiration? That which prompts one into some kind of action in the hope of bearing fruitful results. Inspiration comes from without. There is a prime mover within which motions one into action by an external influence. That is inspiration. What if the prime mover within motions one into action by an internal prompting , as distinguished from that external which one registers as inspiration. That prompting from within is another variant of inspiration . Call it aspiration. An aspiration involves self focusing.

But when the focus projects to an outward target which exists in visualisation rather than in vision perceptible by the senses, it is ambition. 

The difference between ambition and aspiration is akin to that between a dream and a vision. Dream has to be realised. Vision is there to be materialised.

Ambition calls for endurance against stress. One has to wade through shrubs of stress and strain in reaching the goal that requires exoteric exercise. Aspiration yields serenity and self discovery at each layer of accomplishment, whereas even non-accomplishment at any stage would still fetch introspective serenity and self discovery, provided one chooses to retain the aspiration as that, instead of altering its identity as something in the proximity of ambition.

Aspiration is noble. Ambition is ignoble. The former is a virtue, the latter a vice.