What is difference between inspiration and motivation?

@isloooboy (1733)
United Arab Emirates
August 26, 2011 1:57am CST
I was searching for a word which can fit on my topics title but I stuck and I think confused when I wanted to use word one of them. So What is the difference between inspiration and motivation? is there any major difference in those two words? or just they are twins?
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@naseemkum (1803)
• India
26 Aug 11
Inspiration and motivation are same words but they are referred to different ones. My inspiration is my dad and my motivation is live a life what my dad lives. May be inspiration is kind of saying our rolemodel and motivation is a kind of goal we are set to living the life.
• Philippines
26 Aug 11
Motivation and inspiration for me are just the same. They both pertaining to the person or thing that encourage you to work hard or to strive for the best more in your life.
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@isloooboy (1733)
• United Arab Emirates
27 Aug 11
My thought was same but I wanted to get some real knowledge, I am grateful to mylot family they came with pure knowledge and share the exact difference between them. I wish you too read the replies to this topic
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
26 Aug 11
hello isloo, Both words has same meaning- giving someone a strength to pursue. There might be a difference with the usage- or when to use the right word in a sentence. Inspiration is a natural feeling born deep within-when a person find/found someone or a thing that makes them inspired. Motivation is when you push yourself to do your best. have a great weekend jaiho®
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@isloooboy (1733)
• United Arab Emirates
27 Aug 11
Well when we hate some one it means something is motivating us to hate right? so everything we do in our life falls in the category of Inspiration or motivation, right?
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
26 Aug 11
The two words are synonymous. They both connote a drive that makes you wanna be alive or do a thing. But in my opinion, inspiration pertains to persons while motivation pertains to a thing. Like for example, my inspiration in life is my husband and daughter, while my motivation is to have a better life.
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@isloooboy (1733)
• United Arab Emirates
27 Aug 11
So simple but complete answer, you elaborated it so nicely and so plainly I love that. Thanks for such a good and comprehensive reply :D
@francesca5 (1344)
27 Aug 11
thats an interesting question. thinking about it, i think motivation is something that pushes me towards a goal, whereas inspiration is something different, its what inspires me to do something. i think maybe inspiration is like something that fills us up with a sense that we can do something, whereas motivation is about something that we are chasing. its a very subtle difference, i just looked in an online dictionary, and motivation was desscribed as an incentive, whereas inspiration was a sort of higher form of stmimulation, that affects us as makes us want to create something. but in many ways we need both, as inspiration may give us a creative idea that we begin, but it is probably motivation that allows us to complete it.
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@hafiz008 (450)
• India
26 Aug 11
The term motivation is used when one has to tell other person to do so in order to achieve a particular goal. It is an external action by one person to another. The term inspiration is used when one itself think to change. For example, My Father is an industrialist and I am inspired by him. That is I am try to follow his ways to achieve success. It is internal action. one has to think himself
27 Aug 11
Hello islooo boy Concerning to your question i think these tow words are synonymous and it depends on you to use them at the right time to clear the meaning of your sentence. for example my inspiration in my life is my brother, and my motivation is to be successfully in my life
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