Motivation vs. Inspiration

Motivationnoun

Willingness of action especially in behavior.

Motivationnoun

The action of motivating.

Motivationnoun

Something which motivates.

Motivationnoun

An incentive or reason for doing something.

Motivationnoun

(advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

Motivationnoun

The act or process of motivating.

Motivationnoun

The mental process that arouses an organism to action; as, a large part of a teacher's job is to give students the motivation to learn on their own.

Motivationnoun

The goal or mental image of a goal that creates a motivation{2}; as, the image of a peaceful world is a powerful motivation for only a rare few individuals.

Motivationnoun

the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;

Motivationnoun

the condition of being motivated;

Motivationnoun

the act of motivating; providing incentive

Motivation

Motivation is what explains why people or animals initiate, continue or terminate a certain behavior at a particular time. Motivational states are commonly understood as forces acting within the agent that create a disposition to engage in goal-directed behavior.

Inspirationnoun

The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.

Inspirationnoun

(countable) A breath, a single inhalation.

Inspirationnoun

A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

Inspirationnoun

The act of an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.

Inspirationnoun

A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.

Inspirationnoun

A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.

Inspirationnoun

The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; - the opposite of expiration.

Inspirationnoun

The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.

Inspirationnoun

A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

Inspirationnoun

arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

Inspirationnoun

a product of your creative thinking and work;

Inspirationnoun

a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem

Inspirationnoun

(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings;

Inspirationnoun

arousing to a particular emotion or action

Inspirationnoun

the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing