Difference Between Motivation And Inspiration In very simple lines: Inspiration is when an idea or concept moves you to do something. This leads to you taking some sort of action (motivation). or, Inspiration gets you started. Motivation keeps you going. ------------------------------------------- Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow ------------------------------------------------------ To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.