Motivation and Inspiration What's the difference?

Though I am not sure but I think motivation is from others and inspiration is from inside.

Inspiration is what keeps you on track and puts you in the direction while Motivation is what keeps you going on and prevents you from stopping. Inspiration is the Energy Momentum while Motivation is the velocity and the inertia.

Inspiration is related to the process of stimulation of the mind of a person under the influence of divinity. A person influenced by elevated feeling as a result of his/her exposure to the words and discourse of some genius or divine personality is considered as inspired. Religious scriptures have been found to inspire many people to adopt a particular way and discipline of life. Motivation is caused by some external force or incentive that has the power to cause action. It is the incitement of the will or emotion that excites to action. In work situation,workers are given higher incentives and bonuses that have the power of motivating them to work more efficiently for their organization. Thanks.

Well, it is pretty hard to explain this. I think I could with the power of reenactment.. This can be an example of inspiration. Supermodel goes on a show, and informs female teens that they can do anything they set their minds to. Teenagers see the supermodel as a role model now. This can be an example of motivation. Biker has cancer. He fights cancer. Someone else has cancer. That someone sees how the biker hasn't given up. They are motivated to fight the disease. Basically they mean the same thing, but technically, they are a little different. I use motivation as a strong way of saying inspiration. You can always use both terms.

I think the difference is that when you have inspiration you are very motivated but if you are motivated will you develop an inspiration? Like having a goal and you are inspired you will be motivated to achieve that goal.

This response is quite late. Hahaha! I think motivation is an appeal to the mind, and inspiration is an appeal to the emotion. Motivation is objective, inspiration is subjective. Something can be a motivation or an inspiration depending on how you look at it. In effect, though, they are almost the same.

Motivation is something that pushes you on to do something. A goal that you have in mind but getting to the end requires you to do certain tasks. Therefore, you are motivated to do those tasks, because accomplishing the goal is the end result. Therefore, you are rather motivated to accomplish the end result and those that's where motivation. Inspiration can become motivation in itself. However, you see someone accomplish some great feat and thus you are inspired. You think if they can accomplish that, then surely, I can accomplish something. That is the inspiration, it plants the idea in your head and the person's great accomplishment inspires you. Motivation can come from inspiration but you do not really need motivation to be inspired.